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I can't find any indication that Great Slave Lake is a rift lake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geo Swan ( talk • contribs) 17:40, 26 January 2005 (UTC) reply

Yeah, I don't see anyone come out and say GSL is a rift lake, but there are a few places that discuss sub-surface formations as similar to those of other rift lakes. [1] PDF version of same, [2] Where's a geologist when you need one? older≠ wiser 18:02, Jan 26, 2005 (UTC)

The Great Slave Lake is on a continental tear, which is a type of rift. - Gilgamesh 00:55, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The Slavey tribe for whom the lake is named were previously called (spelled, anyway}, "Slave"--hence the lake's name. Does it follow that the lake is properly pronounced "Great Slavey Lake"? (Or was the pronunciation of the tribe's name changed with its spelling, which did not happen to the lake? That seems unlikely.) Could someone who knows add the pronunciation in the article?

In my judgment, names are neither "right" or "wrong", they just are. Many names have been the result of mispronunciation, mis-translation, or other mishap. I grew up in Lonoke, Arkansas, pronounced, "lone oak". Why? Who knows, but that is the way it is. Who cares? I think any child named "Dakota" is wrong because unless you drive a Dodge Dakota, "Dakota" should either be a "North" or a "South". Don't be so silly sensitive because at least for my part, it never occurred to me that the Slave tribe might have been slaves. Jazcam 22:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC) In the text there's a volume given for the GSL of 2090 km3, but in the box on the right side of the page there's a volume given of 1580 km3, which one is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.89.253.21 ( talk) 00:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC) reply

The Great Slave Lake is located in the Great Slave Lake shear zone. A shear zone is not the same as a rift zone. A rift is where a continent is splitting. A shear zone is where the rocks have been sheared by forces acting roughly parallel to the shear zone, not pulling it apart as in a rift.

In any case, I can't find any evidence (other than Wikipedia) that the G.S. Lake is a rift lake. If anyone has a specific reference to the contrary, please note it. I've removed the statement from the article, and the article from the "rift lake" category. Please don't restore those items unless you have a good citation. Gwimpey 04:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC) reply

GSL formed the same as the eastern Great Lakes, Lake Manitoba, Lake Athabasca, and Great Bear Lake. They all lie along the granite rock of the Precambrian Shield and were formed by glacial scour of the softer materials along the edge.

For some reason, the image does not seem to display correctly in the infobox. If someone knows why this happens, please let me know and do what you can to fix the image. Thanks. Em3rald 04:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I read in a World Book published in 1984 the commercial fishing goes on Great Slave Lake to the tune of two million dollars a year.

It looks like commercial fishing is in the past. [ [3]]

In Finnish and Estonian languages, it is called Slave Lake. -- 88.112.140.146 ( talk) 09:17, 1 November 2008 (UTC) reply

That would be a bit odd as Slave Lake, Alberta is a town on the shores of Lesser Slave Lake. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 22:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC) reply

Don't see why that should be odd (but maybe the Finns and Estonians use Finnish and Estonian words anyway). Is an indigenous name for the lake known? Deipnosophista ( talk) 08:53, 7 November 2010 (UTC) reply

I just added the four primary Indigenous names for the lake Danachos ( talk) 17:09, 10 February 2021 (UTC) reply

So the introduction states volume as 2000 some odd cubic kilometers of water vs. 1500 something in the infobox. On the list of lakes by volume it state Great Slave Lake as around 1500 as well. What is the correct volume? Someone? Anyone? Bueller??? 94.100.23.51 ( talk) 13:53, 20 January 2011 (UTC) reply

There are at least three different volumes for the lake. All of which are referenced. By the way List of lakes by area uses the 2,090 figure which has now shrunk to 2,088 due to theft. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 10:25, 21 January 2011 (UTC) reply

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Please, editors, consider buffing out sections on the traditional names. There is plenty of conversation around the distaste for the term "Great Slave" for their lake, and the linked sources around the traditional names touch on that. It is easy to find. Consider giving the translations for Tinde'e or Tu Nedhé and the like, talk about which Nations' countries are centred around the lake, etc. Danachos ( talk) 17:08, 10 February 2021 (UTC) reply

We should consider changing the name to: Great Lake of the Dene. This is because the term "slave" is detested by Dene groups, the name in French is directly that (Grand lac des Esclaves), Esclaves or 'Slaves'/"Slaveys" here meaning the Slavey people. Replace "Slavey" with "Dene" and it goes from offensive to accurate, especially since the various Dene names translate most directly to "great/big lake." Perhaps English could say "Great Dene Lake"? Danachos ( talk) 04:38, 3 August 2021 (UTC) reply

I removed the Great Lake of the Dene as that violates Wikipedia:No original research. Wikipedia can't just arbitrarily change the name of the lake just because Slave is offensive. Wikipedia follows not leads. If the official name gets changed then this article name would as well. I looked at http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search and the only names for the lake are here. The database of names is good for traditional names as I've moved several NU and NWT places based on it. While some people want the name changed it doesn't seem t be something major yet and the people who live around the lake still call it that. See Behchokǫ̀ and Gamètì. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 18:11, 6 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Text currently reads: ″The name 'Great Slave' came from the Slavey people, one of the Dene tribes living on its southern shores at that time. The name originated with the Cree enslavement of members of the neighbouring tribe.″ It seems like these are two separate histories of how the lake got its name. Can this be clarified? Was the neighbouring tribe the Slavey people? That's the only way I can see that these two explanations are consistent. Robbie Mallett ( talk) 05:31, 8 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Robbie Mallett How does this look? CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 23:54, 9 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Looks great! Thanks for taking this on and clarifying. Makes a lot more sense to me. Robbie Mallett ( talk) 10:31, 30 May 2022 (UTC) reply