Northern Tutchone
The Northern Tutchone are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living mainly in the central Yukon in Canada.
Dän k'í | |
|---|---|
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Canada (Yukon) | |
| Languages | |
| Tutchone | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, Animism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Southern Tutchone |
Map of traditional territory of the Northern Tutchone
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)
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