Dan'ke

The Southern Tutchone, whose language is called Dan k'e, are an Athabaskan First Nations people of the southwestern Yukon, with country around Kluane and Aishihik lakes and the upper Yukon at Whitehorse; their historic bands include the Kluane Lake and Champagne people.

For some two thousand years they kept seasonal hunting and fishing camps in this lake-and-plateau country, storing food in raised log caches and moving between salmon stations and caribou hunting grounds in small matrilineal bands. They were linked to the Pacific coast by the Chilkat Pass, a rare route through the coastal mountains, along which Tlingit traders brought eulachon oil and, in time, European goods in exchange for furs.

A glacier in their Tatshenshini territory preserved the body of a man who died around 1700, still with his clothing and clan gear, evidence of how long this way of life endured.