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The history of the Yukon covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians through the Beringia land bridge approximately 20,000 years ago. In the 18th century, Russian explorers began to trade with the First Nations people along the Alaskan coast, and later established trade networks extending into Yukon.
Adney was a journalist for Harper’s Weekly sent by the magazine to chronicle the event. In 1897, he took a steamship to Skagway, then made the long trek into Canada over Chilkoot Pass, to Dawson, and on to the Klondike River. Music of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush: Songs and History (1999) By Jean Murray. The most comprehensive collection of ...
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The Southern Tutchone [1] people named by the late Catharine McClellan; are a group of Athabaskan speaking indigenous people of Southern Yukon, Canada.Today, the Southern Tutchone language is more often being called, "Dän'ke" which means 'our way' or, "Dän k'e kwänje" which means 'our way of speaking' in the Athabaskan language.
The Hudson's Bay Company entered the area of the Yukon around that time. [4]: 3 Through the 1800s, indigenous people, such as the Hän, along the Alaska-Yukon border trapped for furs to trade for European manufactured items. [11] The Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 was a seminal moment in post contact history of the indigenous people of the Yukon.
Yukon was split from the Northwest Territories in 1898 as the Yukon Territory. The federal government's Yukon Act, which received royal assent on March 27, 2002, established "Yukon" as the territory's official name, although Yukon Territory remains in popular usage. Canada Post uses the territory's internationally approved postal abbreviation ...
Many of today's Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin, or people of the river, are descendants of the Hän-speaking people who have lived along the Yukon River for thousands of years. They traveled extensively throughout their traditional territory harvesting salmon from the Yukon River and caribou from the Fortymile and Porcupine Herds.
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