Dene hunters and fishers of the interior, along the Koyukuk, middle Yukon and Tanana rivers, who met the Russians and the Klondike rush at the heart of Alaska.
The 1898 gold rush and the founding of Fairbanks (1901) flooded the interior; the Tanana Chiefs met in 1915 to press for their rights, and the interior Dene govern through Doyon, Ltd. to 2026.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Koyukon & Tanana Dene — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 · 1838 · 1839 · 1867 · 1971.
A focused ethnographic study of the Koyukon of the interior Yukon-Koyukuk country.
Broad survey placing the interior Dene within Alaska Native cultures (broad).
A celebrated Athabascan (Gwich'in) legend retold as a novel about two elders abandoned during a famine in interior Alaska; Gwich'in are close kin to and not separately rostered from the Koyukon/Tanana Dene of this record, so it is attached here as the best-fit interior-Alaska-Dene nation.