Northern Tutchone
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Dän k'í | |
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Regions with significant populations | |
Canada (Yukon) | |
Languages | |
Tutchone language | |
Religion | |
Christianity, Animism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Southern Tutchone |
The Northern Tutchone are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living mainly in the central Yukon in Canada.
Language and culture[]
The Northern Tutchone language, originally spoken by the Northern Tutchone people, is a variety of the Tutchone language, part of the Athabaskan language family. Song Keeper Jerry Alfred is leading a movement to keep the language alive through his music.
Governments[]
Northern Tutchone First Nations governments and communities include:
- First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun (Mayo, Yukon) (Na-Cho Nyäk Dun - "Big River People", because they called the Stewart River Na Cho Nyak, meaning Big River, most northerly Northern Tutchone First Nation)
- Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation (Carmacks, Yukon) (Tagé Cho Hudän - "Big River People")
- Selkirk First Nation (Pelly Crossing, Yukon) (Hućha Hudän - "Flatland People", because of the landscape in Fort Selkirk, where the land is flat on both sides of the river)
- White River First Nation (Beaver Creek, Yukon)
External links[]
- Tutchone, Canadian Encyclopedia
Categories:
- First Nations in Yukon
- Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic
- First Nations stubs