Dezadeash Trail

Across Chilkat Pass, a trail connected the coast with the valleys leading towards Dezadeash Lake. Chilkat Tlingit traders guarded this route between their coastal country and the interior. Near the Tatshenshini River, the Southern Tutchone village of Shäwshe lay at a meeting of trails leading towards Dezadeash, Aishihik and Kusawa lakes; its people traded with the Chilkat and with communities farther downriver.