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Koyukon
Poldine Carlo, Koyukon author, 2007
Regions with significant populations
United States (Alaska)2,300[1]
Languages
English, Koyukon, Russian (historically)
Religion
Christianity, Animism
Related ethnic groups
Deg Hit'an, Holikachuk, Gwich'in, other Northern Athabaskan peoples

The Koyukon, Dinaa, or Denaa (Denaakk'e: Tl’eeyegge Hut’aane) are an Alaska Native Athabascan people of the Athabascan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. Their traditional territory is along the Koyukuk and Yukon rivers where they subsisted for thousands of years by hunting and trapping. Many Koyukon live in a similar manner today.

The Koyukon language belongs to a large family called Na-Dené or Athabascan, traditionally spoken by numerous groups of native people throughout northwestern North America. In addition, due to ancient migrations of related peoples, other Na-Dené languages, such as Navajo and Apachean varieties, are spoken in the American Southwest and in Mexico.

History

The first Europeans to enter Koyukon territory were Russians, who came up the Yukon River to Nulato in 1838. When they arrived, they found that items such as iron pots, glass beads, cloth apparel, and tobacco had already reached the people through their trade with coastal Eskimos, who had long traded with Russians. An epidemic of smallpox had preceded them, causing high fatalities in the village. In subsequent years, European infectious diseases drastically reduced the Koyukon population, who had no immunity to these new diseases.

Relative isolation persisted along the Koyukuk until 1898, when the Yukon Gold Rush brought more than a thousand men to the river. They found little gold, and most left the following winter.[2]

Koyukon people on left bank of Koyukuk River, 195 miles above its mouth, September 6, 1898.

Archaeological evidence suggests that the Koyukon people have inhabited their region for at least 1,000 years, with cultural roots there that stretch back thousands of years earlier.[3]

Ethnobotany

See also: Ethnobotany

The Koyukon freeze lingonberries for winter use.[4]

Notable Koyukon

References

  1. ^ Alaska Native Language Center : Alaska Native Languages / Population and Speaker Statistics
  2. ^ Shannon Michele McNeeley (2009), Seasons out of balance climate change impacts, vulnerability, and sustainable adaptation in Interior Alaska Archived 2016-08-24 at the Wayback Machine, Fairbanks, Alaska, August 2009
  3. ^ Smith, Gerad (2020). Ethnoarchaeology of the Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska.
  4. ^ Nelson, Richard K., 1983, Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, p. 55
  5. ^ "Walker admin appoints climate adviser, promises new policy 'soon'". 20 September 2017.
  6. ^ "YPCCC welcomes the inaugural class of the Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis". 8 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Arctic Policy Commission hires Nikoosh Carlo as director". Daily News-Miner. Fairbanks, Alaska. October 8, 2013.

Further reading

External links

Indigenous peoples of Alaska (Tribal entities)
Authority control databases
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