Dene of the Copper River basin, controllers of the native copper trade who guarded the river so fiercely the Russians twice failed to settle it.
The Ahtna destroyed Russian posts on the Copper in 1795 and the 1840s and held the valley until the 1898 Klondike-era stampede and the Kennecott copper boom; they govern the basin through Ahtna, Inc. to 2026.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Ahtna — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 · 1819 · 1867 · 1971.
A celebrated study of Koyukon Athabaskan worldview, broadly illuminating the neighboring interior Dene world of the Ahtna (broad regional context, not Ahtna-specific).
Broad survey including the Copper River Athabaskans (broad).