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In response he entrusted many songs and dances to First Nations people living in Alaska. During the years following the Klondike Gold Rush, the Hän worked to find a balance between their traditional lifestyle and the ways of the newcomers. Yukon First Nations set the Land Claims process in motion during the 1970s. Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin began ...
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.
The Hän, Han or Hwëch'in / Han Hwech’in (meaning "People of the River, i.e. Yukon River", in English also Hankutchin) are a First Nations people of Canada and an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the United States; they are part of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.
Territorial flag of Yukon This is a list of notable people who are from Yukon , Canada , or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that territory. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations (CAFN) is a First Nation band government in Yukon, Canada.Historically its original population centres were Champagne (home of the Kwächä̀l kwächʼǟn - "Champagne people/band") and Aishihik (home of the Äshèyi kwächʼǟn - ″Aishihik people/band″), with bands active in both coastal and interior areas.
The Kluane Lake area is the traditional territory of the Lù’àn Män Ku Dän, the Kluane Lake People. The majority of the First Nation people from this area identify themselves as descendants of Southern Tutchone speakers and follow a matriarchal moiety system of two clans, Khanjet (Crow Clan) or Ägunda (WolfClan). Other ancestors of the ...
Yukon; Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. I. Inuvialuit (8 C, 6 P) L. Indigenous leaders in Yukon (11 P) O.
The Tagish or Tagish Khwáan (Tagish: Tā̀gish kotʼīnèʼ; Tlingit: Taagish ḵwáan) are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that lived around Tagish Lake and Marsh Lake, in Yukon of Canada. The Tagish intermarried heavily with Tlingit from the coast and the Tagish language became extinct in 2008.