Hän

<p>The Hän, Han or Hwëch'in / Han Hwech’in (meaning "People of the River, i.e. Yukon River", in English also Hankutchin) are a <a href="/facts/First_Nations_in_Canada/ccqhx22M">First Nations</a> people of Canada and an <a href="/facts/Alaska_Native/BdNgd6Ds">Alaska Native</a> <a href="/facts/Alaskan_Athabaskans/RmX54eMW">Athabaskan</a> people of the United States; they are part of the <a href="/facts/Athabaskan_languages/JMyzHIem">Athabaskan-speaking</a> ethnolinguistic group. Their traditional lands centered on a heavily <a href="/facts/Boreal_forest/xjkPQRJs">forested</a> area around the <a href="/facts/Yukon_River/J0AYLxdQ">Upper Yukon River (Chu Kon'Dëk)</a>, <a href="/facts/Klondike_River/0EECqNKK">Klondike River (Tr'on'Dëk)</a>, <a href="/facts/Bonanza_Creek/pol1gHt7">Bonanza Creek (Gàh Dëk)</a> and <a href="/facts/Sixtymile_River/57Vxxnmw">Sixtymile River (Khel Dëk)</a> and straddling what is now the <a href="/facts/Alaska/LlDNr2uR">Alaska</a>-<a href="/facts/Yukon_Territory/JAGCCGCW">Yukon Territory</a> border. In later times, the Han population became centered in <a href="/facts/Dawson_City,_Yukon/cG1vngXo">Dawson City, Yukon</a> and <a href="/facts/Eagle,_Alaska/xF3L5X8C">Eagle, Alaska</a>.
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