Koyukon people
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.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Koyukon
- Ethnic group.image
- 200px
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Poldine Carlo, Koyukon author, 2007
- Ethnic group.region1
- United States (Alaska)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 2,300
- Ethnic group.langs
- English, Koyukon, Russian (historically)
- Ethnic group.rels
- Christianity, Animism
- Ethnic group.related
- Deg Hit'an, Holikachuk, Gwich'in, other Northern Athabaskan peoples
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- History
- Ethnobotany
- Notable Koyukon
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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 Athabascan, which in turn is a branch of the larger Na-Dené languages traditionally spoken by numerous groups of native people throughout northwestern North America. In addition, ancient migrations of related peoples led to other Na-Dené languages, such as Navajo and Apachean languages, being spoken in the American Southwest and in Mexico.