Gunaaxoo Kwáan

Gunaaxoo is the Tlingit name for Dry Bay, where the Alsek River spreads into channels before reaching the Gulf of Alaska. The name means “among the Athabascans”, recalling the interior people who lived along this river and its coast. Tlingit clans also came north by sea, while others travelled the Alsek in canoes. The river joined the coastal and inland worlds through travel, settlement and exchange, even as glaciers shaped the surrounding valleys.