Dan'ki

The Northern Tutchone, who call themselves Dan ki, are an Athabaskan First Nations people of the central Yukon, whose villages and camps line the Yukon, Pelly, Stewart and McQuesten rivers as far east as the Selwyn Mountains; their bands include the Tage Cho Hudan, or Big River people, of Carmacks.

The Pelly-Yukon confluence alone has served as a native camp since roughly 6000 BC. In historic times they lived as communal hunter-fishers, taking salmon in summer and caribou and moose through the winter, organized into two matrilineal moieties, Wolf and Crow, whose clans regulated marriage and ceremony.

They were tied to the Pacific trade by the Chilkat Tlingit, who crossed the coastal passes with eulachon oil and, by the early nineteenth century, European goods, carrying away interior furs and hides.