Hän people
Sign in to saveThe 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
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Hän
- Ethnic group.image
- 200px
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Chief Isaac of the Han, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898
- Ethnic group.population
- 310
- Ethnic group.region1
- Canada (Yukon)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 250
- Ethnic group.region2
- United States (Alaska)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 60
- Ethnic group.langs
- English, Hän
- Ethnic group.rels
- Christianity
- Ethnic group.related
- Gwich'in and other Alaskan Athabaskans
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
11 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History of the Hän
- Culture
- Food
- Housing
- Language
- In media
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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, Yukon and Eagle, Alaska. thumb|Chief Isaac of the Han in a canoe, 1898
==Etymology== The name Hän or Han is a shortening of their own name as ''Hwëch'in / Han Hwech’in, and of the Gwich’in word Hangʷičʼin for the Hän, both literally meaning "People of the River, i.e. the Yukon River". This word has been spelled variously as Hankutchin, Han-Kootchin, Hun-koo-chin, Hong-Kutchin, An Kutchin, Han Kutchin, Han-Kutchín, Hăn-Kŭtchin´, Hän Hwëch'in, and Hungwitchin''.