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:''Not to be confused with the Taku Arm of Tagish Lake The Taku River is a river running from British Columbia, Canada, to the northwestern coast of North America, at Juneau, Alaska. Its mouth coincides with the Alaska-British Columbia border. The river basin spreads across . During the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Taku Indians controlled the trade routes on the river and compelled natives of the Interior to use them as middle-men, instead of allowing trade directly with white settlers.〔(Muir, J., ''Travels in Alaska'' (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915) )〕 The Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post called Fort Durham, also known as Fort Taku, near the mouth of the Taku River in the early 1840s to take advantage of the natural trade route. However, by 1843, Fort Durham had been abandoned as unprofitable.〔"Background - Native Culture," ''Historic Preservation Program'', Juneau History, City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska (Juneau Public Libraries, 2003).()〕 Although a major river, the Taku's name does not extend to its headwaters. Its name begins at the confluence of the Inklin and Nakina Rivers, which is the location of the tiny community of Inklin. The Inklin's name also only extends upstream to the confluence of the Nahlin and Sheslay Rivers, which the Nakina's main tributaries are the Sloko and Silver Salmon Rivers. One account of its name is that "Taku" is the Tlingit language word for "salmon"〔 but the Taku Tlingit name for themselves ''T'aaku Kwáan'' translates as "Geese Flood Upriver Tribe"".〔(Map of T'aaku kwaan territories )〕 There are also two ''kwaans'' of the Tlingit people inland in British Columbia, the ''Áa Tlein Kwáan'' ("Big Lake Tribe", today organized as the Taku River Tlingit First Nation) and the ''Deisleen Kwáan'' ("Big Sinew Tribe", today organized as the Teslin Tlingit Council); the territory of the former includes those areas of the Taku basin in British Columbia. ==Tributaries== In addition to the Inklin and Nakina Rivers, from which it is formed, other tributaries of the Taku proper include the Tulsequah River. 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「Taku River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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