1607: slavey May 9, 2019

Many names for Native American tribes were decided by other groups. This is called an exonym, and possibly nowhere has as many as Germany, but in the Americas, sometimes tries are named after seemingly random words, as in the case of 'Ojibwe'. However, like what happened with 'Germany' and its many foreign names, the Slavey tribe was named because the Cree often referred to enemy tribes pejoratively as 'slaves', as they would often enslave them. The French first took this Cree name and translated it as 'esclaves', and this was then transferred into English. The Slavey people often call themselves Dene.