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Eagle
city in Alaska, United States
Klondike River
watercourse in Yukon, Canada
Klondike
region of Yukon, Canada
Hän
native American endangered language
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Hän people
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. Their traditional lands centered on a heavily forested area around the Upper Yukon River (Chu Kon'Dëk), Klondike River (Tr'on'Dëk), Bonanza Creek (Gàh Dëk) and Sixtymile River (Khel Dëk) and straddling what is now the Alaska-Yukon Territory border. In later times, the Han population became centered in Dawson City
Bonanza Creek
tributary of Klondike River in Yukon, Canada
Forty Mile
locality in Yukon, Canada (lat 64.45, lon -140.55)
King Solomon's Dome
mountain in Canada
Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation
Canadian First Nation
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Quannah Chasinghorse
American model and activist (born 2002)
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Gavin McKenna
Canadian ice hockey player (born 2007)
Sixty Mile River
river in the United States of America and Canada
Tr'ochëk
thumb|Tr'ochëk, shown just above Dawson City '''Tr'ochëk''' is the site of a traditional Hän fishing camp at the confluence of the Klondike River and Yukon River. Tr'ochëk lies on the upstream flat, an alluvial deposition of the Klondike River, at the river confluence. Dawson City is directly north of the site, just across the Klondike. The site is owned and managed by the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, and is operated by the First Nation's Department of Heritage. Tr'ochëk became part of the Tr’ondëk-Klondike UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023 because of its unique testimony to the transforma