Gwich’in

Gwich'in familj utanför bostaden ca. 1899

Gwich’in, (engelska: Kutchin) är en indianstam som lever i Alaska samt norra Kanada, huvudsakligen norr om polcirkeln. Deras språk, som tillhör den athapaskiska språkfamiljen, talas idag flytande av mindre än 400 personer.[1] Traditionellt har Gwich’in-indianerna livnärt sig på den nordamerikanska renen, cariboun. I dag (2019) lever cirka 4 500 gwich'iner i 15 lokalsamfund vid polcirkeln, dels i Kanada, dels i Alaska.[2]

Det första dokumenterade mötet mellan Gwich'inerna och européer inträffade när den skotske upptäcktsresande Sir Alexander Mackenzie reste uppför Mackenziefloden (på Slavey: Geh Cho) år 1789.[1]

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Han or Gwich'in family outside home


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Han or Gwich'in family outside home, Forty Mile City, Yukon, ca. 1899


PHOTOGRAPHER Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948

NOTES Family group, Han or possibly Gwich'in Indians, outside house, ca. 1898-1900. Beside them is dogsled, tent next to building, possibly sod-house.

Caption on image: An Indian family at home, Forty Mile City, Dawson

Copied by Webster & Stevens 265.A

Photographer's reference number: B168

SUBJECTS Group portraits--Yukon Territory Indians of North America--Yukon Territory--Structures Families Fortymile (Alaska) Dawson (Yukon) Canada--Yukon Territory--Dawson Photographs

REPRODUCTION NUMBER NA2450

REPOSITORY University of Washington Libraries

SOURCE COLLECTION Eric A. Hegg Collection no. 274

DIGITAL ID http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/htmlview.exe?CISOROOT=/loc&CISOPTR=1319


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