Hän Hwëch'in people

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Athabaskan people First Nations people Indigenous people

The Hän Hwëch'in people are an Indigenous First Nations group of the Yukon and Alaska region, traditionally living along the Yukon River and known for their rich Athabaskan cultural and linguistic heritage.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Hän Hwëch'in people canonical 3

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan people ⓘ
First Nations people ⓘ
Indigenous people ⓘ
affectedBy Yukon gold rush-era settlement ⓘ
autonym Hän Hwëch'in ⓘ
contemporaryReligion Christianity ⓘ
continent North America ⓘ
country Canada ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
culturalHeritage Athabaskan cultural traditions ⓘ
culturalRegion Subarctic ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf Canada ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
hasCulturalPractice oral storytelling traditions ⓘ
potlatch ceremonies ⓘ
seasonal round of hunting and fishing ⓘ
hasLinguisticHeritage Hän Athabaskan dialects ⓘ
historicalContactEvent Klondike Gold Rush (1897–1898) ⓘ
surface form: Klondike Gold Rush
language Hän language ⓘ
languageFamily Athabaskan ⓘ
surface form: Athabaskan languages

Na-Dene ⓘ
surface form: Na-Dene language family
nameMeaning people of the river ⓘ
notableRiver Yukon River ⓘ
partOf Athabascan peoples ⓘ
surface form: Athabaskan-speaking peoples of the Subarctic
primaryRegion Alaska ⓘ
Yukon ⓘ
recognizedAs First Nation in Yukon ⓘ
relatedEthnicGroup Gwich’in ⓘ
surface form: Gwichʼin

Northern Tutchone ⓘ
Kaska Dena ⓘ
surface form: Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in

Upper Tanana people ⓘ
religion traditional Indigenous spirituality ⓘ
traditionalHousing semi-subterranean houses ⓘ
skin tents ⓘ
traditionalSubsistence caribou hunting ⓘ
fishing ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ
moose hunting ⓘ
trapping ⓘ
traditionalTerritory Dawson City ⓘ
surface form: Dawson City region

Fortymile River region ⓘ
Yukon River basin ⓘ
central Yukon River ⓘ
usesMaterialCulture birchbark canoes ⓘ
caribou-skin clothing ⓘ
snowshoes ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hän → spokenBy → Hän Hwëch'in people ⓘ
Hän → traditionalTerritoryOf → Hän Hwëch'in people ⓘ
Hän → partOfCulturalHeritageOf → Hän Hwëch'in people ⓘ