This article is about the ethnic group. For their language, seeKoyukon language.
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TheKoyukon,Dinaa, orDenaa (Denaakk'e:Tl’eeyegge Hut’aane) are anAlaska NativeAthabascan people of theAthabascan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. Their traditional territory is along theKoyukuk andYukon rivers where they subsisted for thousands of years by hunting and trapping. Many Koyukon live in a similar manner today.
TheKoyukon language belongs to a large family calledNa-Dené orAthabascan, traditionally spoken by numerous groups of native people throughout northwesternNorth America. In addition, due to ancient migrations of related peoples, other Na-Dené languages, such asNavajo andApachean varieties, are spoken in the American Southwest and inMexico.
The first Europeans to enter Koyukon territory wereRussians, who came up the Yukon River toNulato 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 coastalEskimos, who had long traded with Russians. An epidemic ofsmallpox had preceded them, causing high fatalities in the village. In subsequent years, European infectious diseases drastically reduced the Koyukon population, who had noimmunity to these new diseases.
Relative isolation persisted along the Koyukuk until 1898, when theYukon 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 ofKoyukuk 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]
Nikoosh Carlo, PhD, scientist and policy advisor. Dr. Carlo served as Senior Advisor, Climate & Arctic Policy to the Governor of Alaska (2017–18),[5] Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State for the U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council (2015–2017), Public Voices Fellow at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication[6] and as executive director, Alaska Arctic Policy Commission (2013–2015).[7]
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