The Athapaskans (Dena) are a tribe of Indians living along the Yukon and Koyukuk rivers in central-north Alaska since at least 1300 BC, when they are thought to have settled, coming from wandering Asian tribes. They are hunters, trappers and fishermen, typical of aboriginal people they live in harmony with the land and the animals and plants with which they feel they share it. Following the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act the Indians have become more westernised, and have had their subsistence existence damaged by western values of unemployment, alcoholism and land ownership - a concept previously alien and preposterous to the Indians. Research Athapaskan
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