Dene Tha’ fixed sites include cabins, camping places and settlement sites. These sites were used by Dene Tha’ as either temporary, overnight camping places, or as more permanent settlement areas.
The living conditions of a nomadic lifestyle were often severe, with none of the luxuries that we take for granted today. For example, Sophie Mecredi remembers when her family used a mud fireplace to cook their food, and when there were no lamps used at nighttime.
Even though this lifestyle was not filled with many extras, people described the life on the land, if they had the chance, as one they would gladly return to. Life was hard, but it was also fulfilling.
Dene Tha’ adapted to a more semi-permanent lifestyle around the turn of the century. It was at this time that trading posts were established throughout the area by the Hudson’s Bay Company.
Gradually, the Dene Tha’ settled in small, family-based groups, residing in log cabins that were used 
seasonally, according to hunting patterns. There are many stories recounted by the Dene Tha’ elders which describe “when we first lived in a log house.” It is only relatively recently that the Dene Tha’ lived any type of sedentary lifestyle in the main contemporary communities.