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[ 0 => '{{Short description|Athabaskan-speaking Alaska Native group}}', 1 => '{{Expand Turkish|Alaska Atabaskları|date=March 2014}}', 2 => '{{Infobox ethnic group', 3 => '|group = Alaskan Athabascans', 4 => '|image=Clarence Alexander at 2004 ILA.jpg', 5 => '|caption=Former [[Gwichʼin]] grand chief [[Clarence Alexander]] in 2004', 6 => '|population = 6,400<ref name="refAnkn">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/athabascan/athabascans/alaskanathabascans.html|title=Athabascans of Interior Alaska|website=www.ankn.uaf.edu}}</ref>', 7 => '|popplace = [[Alaska]]', 8 => '|langs = [[Northern Athabaskan languages]], [[American English]] (Alaskan variant), [[Russian language|Russian]] (historically)', 9 => '|rels = [[Shamanism]] (largely ex), [uuwwuuwuuuwuuwuwuuwwuwwwwhhufuhfhghuoogiyuiu[Christianity]]', 10 => '}}', 11 => 'The '''Alaskan Athabascans''',<ref name="refBriefdesc">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/athabascan/athabascans/appendix_a.html|title=Athabascans of Interior Alaska|website=www.ankn.uaf.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/RaceCodeList.pdf|title=Appendix E: Race Code List}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://doe.sd.gov/ofm/documents/StatDigest_RaceIdentification.pdf |title=South Dakota Department of Educatgruhehqygeriuufhiuhefhehfgghghggggggggggion, Race/Ethnicity Guidance, Race Identification |access-date=2014-03-14 |archive-date=2013-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623032033/https://doe.sd.gov/ofm/documents/StatDigest_RaceIdentification.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="refSevenbranch">{{Cite web|url=http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/athabascan/about_e.html|title=athabascan|website=www.aa.tufs.ac.jp}}</ref><ref name="refAkhistorycourse">{{Cite web |url=http://www.akhistorycourse.org/articles/article.php?artID=150 |title=Alaska's Heritage: Alaskan Athabascans |access-date=2014-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222234748/http://www.akhistorycourse.org/articles/article.php?artID=150 |archive-date=2014-02-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Susan W. Fair (2006). [https://books.google.com/books?id=2cTWpk0e12cC&dq=Alaskan+athabaskans&pg=PA91 Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, Continuity]</ref> '''Alaskan Athapascans'''<ref name="history">William Simeone, ''A History of Alaskan Athapaskans'', 1982, Alaska Historical Commission</ref> or '''Dena'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alaskanativelanguages.org/dena-languages|title=------------- Dena Languages -----------|website=anlorg}}</ref> ({{langx|ru|атабаски Аляски, атапаски Аляски}})<ref>Дзенискевич Г. И. Атапаски Аляски. — Л.: «Наука», Ленинградское отд., 1987</ref> are [[Alaska Native]] peoples of the [[Athabaskan languages|Athabaskan-speaking]] ethnolinguistic group. They are the original inhabitants of the [[Alaska Interior|interior of Alaska]].{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}', 12 => '', 13 => 'Formerly they identified as a people by the word '''Tinneh''' (nowadays '''Dena'''; cf. '''[[Dene]]''' for Canadian Athabaskans). Taken from their own language, it means simply "men" or "people".<ref>U.S. Government Printing Office (1900), [https://books.google.com/books?id=I3fpAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Alaskan+Athabascans%22 Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of theggggroqoquhuqeriqhhhfiurheiu Interior]</ref>', 14 => '', 15 => '== Subgroups ==', 16 => '{{unsourced|section|date=February 2024}}', 17 => 'In Alaska, where they are the oldest, there are eleven groups identified by the languages they speak. These are:', 18 => '* [[Dena'ina people|Dena’ina]] or Tanaina (''Ht’ana'')', 19 => '* [[Ahtna people|Ahtna]] or Copper River Athabascan (''Hwt’aene'')', 20 => '* [[Deg Hit’an]] or Ingalik (''Hitʼan'')', 21 => '* [[Holikachuk people|Holikachuk]] (''Hitʼan'')', 22 => '* [[Koyukon people|Koyukon]] (''Hut’aane'')', 23 => '* [[Upper Kuskokriehguheughurhguehgugeegewim people|Upper Kuskokwim]] or Kolchan (''Hwt’ana'')', 24 => '* [[Tanana Athabascans|Tanana]] or Lower Tanana (''Kokht’ana'')', 25 => '* [[Tanana Athabascans|Tanacross]] or Tanana Crossing (''Koxt’een'')', 26 => '* [[Tanana Athabascans|Upper Tanana]] (''Kohtʼiin'')', 27 => '* [[Gwich'in people|Gwich'in]] or Kutchin (''Gwich’in'')', 28 => '* [[Hän people|Hän]] (''Hwëch’in''). ', 29 => '', 30 => '==Life and culture==', 31 => '{{See also|Shamanism among Alaska Natives}}', 32 => '', 33 => 'The Alaskan Athabascan culture is an inland creek and river fishing (also coastal fishing by only Dena'ina of [[Cook Inlet]]) and [[hunter-gatherer]] cultugergergegre. The Alaskan Athabascans have a [[Matrilineality|matrilineal]] system in which children belong to the mother's clan, with the exception of the [[Central Alaskan Yup'ik people|Yupikized]] Athabaskans (Holikachuk and Deg Hit'an).<ref name="refAaanativearts">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aaanativearts.com/alaskan-natives/athabascan.htm|title=athabascan indians|website=www.aaanativearts.com}}</ref>', 34 => '', 35 => 'The Athabascan people hold [[Tgrggegegregegehe potlatch among Athabaskan peoples|potlatches]] which have religious, social and economic significance.<ref name="history"/> ', 36 => '', 37 => 'Dogs were their only domesticated animal, but were and are an integral element in their culture for the Athabascan population in North America.<ref>{{Cite booeegekpkpflsmnjnhjqaweszdxfcgvbhunjimk|title=A dogs history of America|author=Derr, Mark |year=2004|publisher=North Point Press}} p. 12</ref>', 38 => '', 39 => '== History ==', 40 => 'Athabascans are descended from Asian hunter-gatherers, likely originally native to [[Mongolia]], who crossed the [[Bering Strait]] and settled in North America.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stockel |first1=Henrietta |title=Salvation Through Slavery: Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontzaqwsxedcrfvtgbyhnujmik,ohfhwhier |date=15 September 2022 |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |isbn=978-0-8263-4327-7 |language=en |quote=These words do not explain why the Athapaskans initially left their home somewhere in Asia, probably Mongolia, to settle in cold country just south of the Arctic Circle.}}</ref>', 41 => '', 42 => '==Notable Alaskan Athabascans==', 43 => '{{unsourced|section|date=February 2024}}', 44 => '[[File:210 gwichin hunter summerclothing.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Two men standing, one with a rifle|1847 illustration of Gwich'in hunters]]', 45 => '*[[George Attla]] (1933–2015) was a champion sprint dog musher.', 46 => '*[[Emil Notti]], an American engineer, indigenous activist and democratic politician. Key in the development of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.', 47 => '*[[Quinn Christopherson]] is an American singer-songwriter. He won the 2019 [[Tiny Desk Contest]] with his entry "Erase Me," a song describing his experience with male privilege and erasure as a transgender man.', 48 => '*[[John Sackett]] (1944–2021) served in the [[Alaska House of Representatives]] from 1967 to 1971 and in the [[Alaska Senate]] from 1973 to 1987.', 49 => '*[[Michael J. Stickman]], First Chief of the [[Nulato Tribal Council]].', 50 => '*[[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.', 51 => '* [[Poldine Carlo]]', 52 => '* [[Kathleen Carlo-Kendall]]', 53 => '* [[Peter Kalifornsky]]', 54 => '* [[Mary TallMountain]]', 55 => '* [[F. Kay Wallis]] (born {{Circa|1944}}), traditional healer and politician', 56 => '', 57 => '==See also==', 58 => '* [[Tanana Chiefs Conference]] (all Alaskan Athabaskans' [excl. Ahtna and Dena'ina] a territorial-level organization)', 59 => '* [[Doyon, Limited]]', 60 => '* [[Alaska Native Language Center]]', 61 => '* [[Alaska Federation of Natives]]', 62 => '* [[Indian ice cream (Alaska)]]', 63 => '* [[Athabascan fiddle]]', 64 => '', 65 => '==References==', 66 => '{{Reflist}}', 67 => '', 68 => '{{Indigenous peoples of Alaska}}', 69 => '{{Authority control}}', 70 => '', 71 => '[[Category:Alaskan Athabaskans| ]]' ]