Sekani or Tse’khene are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. Their territory includes the Finlay River and Parsnip River drainages of the Athabasca River. The neighbours of the Sekani are the Babine to the west, Carrier (Dakelh) to the south, Dunneza (Beaver) to the east, and Kaska and Tahltan, to the north, all Athabaskan peoples. In addition, due to the westward spread of the Plains Cree Indians in recent centuries, their neighbours to the east now include Cree communities.

Sekani people call their language [tsekʼene] or [tθekʼene] depending on dialect, which appended with Dene (meaning people), means “people on the rocks.” Sekani is an anglicization of this term. Other forms occasionally found, especially in older sources, are Chickanee, Secunnie, Siccanie, Sikani, and the French Sékanais. [2]

Teit’s 1909 map indicates “Area at head of Fraser River, enclosed by broken double lines, temporarily occupied by the Sekanai.”