Preliminary Study of the Western Gwich'in Bands

• Main Author: Raboff, Adeline Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1999
• Subjects: Alaska; northwestern Canada; Arctic; Arctic Red River; Canada; Mackenzie River; Yukon; Gwich’in; Inupiat; koyukon; Mackenzie river; Yukon river
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nw7c8d7

The Kiitl’it and Di’haii Gwich’in were once two distinct subgroups of the Gwich’in people. The Gwich’in people once occupied all the mountainous terrain and river valleys between the Arctic Red River and the MacKenzie River Delta westward to the Upper Noatak River valley in northwestern Alaska. The...