Koyukon
The Koyukon are a group of Athapaskan people in northern Alaska . Their original home is along the Koyukuk Rivers and Yukon Rivers , where they have fed by hunting and trapping for thousands of years. Many Koyukon live in a similar way today.
history
The first Europeans to reach the Koyukon Territory were Russians, who came to Nulato via the Yukon River in 1838. They found items such as iron pots, glass beads, clothing, and tobacco, items that the Koyukon obtained from trading with coastal Inuit . The first whites spread an epidemic of smallpox. In the years that followed, European diseases would drastically decimate the Koyukon population. Relative isolation along the Koyukuk River lasted until 1898 when the gold rush drove more than a thousand whites to the river. Many of them left the area again the following winter.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shannon Michele McNeeley (2009), Seasons out of balance climate change impacts, vulnerability, and sustainable adaptation in Interior Alaska ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.0 MB), Fairbanks, Alaska, August 2009
