explores the migration and settlement of the Northwest Territory in the United States following the Revolutionary War. It highlights the vast resources available in the region, the challenges ...

the new United States government assumed ownership of the vast Northwest Territory that had been ceded to the pre-constitutional confederation by states with (real or potential) claims to the land.

Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, is an isolated mining town built on gold and now sustained by diamonds—an outpost of civilization surrounded by a vast, austere landscape ...

Northwest Territories Premier R ... also said that keeping critical minerals from the N.W.T. being sold to the States is a "natural discussion," but that right now, no mines in the territory ...