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Formerly they identified as a people by the wordTinneh (nowadaysDena; cf.Dene for Canadian Athabaskans). Taken from their own language, it means simply "men" or "people".[12]
The Alaskan Athabascan culture is an inland creek and river fishing (also coastal fishing by only Dena'ina ofCook Inlet) andhunter-gatherer culture. The Alaskan Athabascans have amatrilineal system in which children belong to the mother's clan, with the exception of theYupikized Athabaskans (Holikachuk and Deg Hit'an).[13]
The Athabascan people holdpotlatches which have religious, social and economic significance.[8]
Dogs were their only domesticated animal, but were and are an integral element in their culture for the Athabascan population in North America.[14]
Athabascans are descended from Asian hunter-gatherers, likely originally native toMongolia, who crossed theBering Strait and settled in North America.[15]
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Siobhan Wescott, physician and public health advocate; she has served as director of the American Indian Health Program and is a professor of American Indian health at the University of Nebraska.[27]
^Derr, Mark (2004).A dogs history of America. North Point Press. p. 12
^Stockel, Henrietta (September 15, 2022).Salvation Through Slavery: Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontier. University of New Mexico Press.ISBN978-0-8263-4327-7.These words do not explain why the Athabaskans initially left their home somewhere in Asia, probably Mongolia, to settle in cold country just south of the Arctic Circle.
