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The Indigenous peoples of Yukon are the aboriginals (native people) of the Yukon along with the Inuit occupying the Arctic coast. Until the 1850's, such indigenous people were the only inhabitants of this territory, but now they make up only a quarter of the population of Yukon (7,587 of 30,372 people according to census of 2006〔(2006 Community Profiles in Yukon )〕). ==Yukon before European contact== Estimates of population of Yukon at the beginning of the 19th century strongly differ. Historians first assumed that 8000 people,〔http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/klondike/context/firstnationshistory/indexen.html〕 from 7000 to 8000 people,〔Kenneth Coates, William Robert Morrison. Land of the midnight sun: a history of the Yukon. — 2. — Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. — 362 p.〕 or more than 9000 people lived there.〔Kenneth Coates. Canada's colonies: a history of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. — James Lorimer & Company, 1985. — 362 p.〕 Other estimates show that by 1830 there were 4,700 indigenous people.〔 The main part of the territory of modern Yukon was occupied by various Athabaskan tribes. In the north, in the basins of the Peel River and the Porcupine River there lived Kutchin or, as they call themselves, Gwitchin Indians.〔http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/yukon/〕 On the middle reach of theYukon River, on a border with Alaska there lived Hän - Indians related to them. Northern Tutchone occupied most of the central Yukon, in basins of the Pelly River and the Stewart River, and Southern Tutchone - southwest of Yukon. In the southeast, in a basin of Liard River there lived Kaska Indians. In the south, near lakes in upper courses of Yukon there lived Tagish, related to them. In the southwest, in riverheads of the White River there lived Upper Tanana.〔Wurm, Stephen A.; Mühlhäusler, Peter; Tryon, Darrell T. Volume I. (Trends in Linguistics, Documentation Series, Volume 13) // Atlas of languages of intercultural communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. — Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1996.〕 Besides Athabaskan, on the Arctic coast of modern Yukon, including Herschel Island, there lived Inuit (Eskimo). And in the south, down the Teslin River there lived continental Tlingit (Teslin) whose language, together with Athabaskan languages, is included in the Na-Dene language family.〔 Snow-covered Mount Saint Elias in the extreme southwest of Yukon was unsettled. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indigenous peoples of Yukon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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