Lh'n Mn Keyi Da Kwanje Ntsat

Kluane First Nation is one of eleven self-governing First Nations in the Yukon. The traditional territory of the Lhùʼààn Mân Ku Dań (Kluane Lake People) extends from the shores of Lhùʼààn Mân (Kluane Lake) northeast to the Ruby and Nisling mountain ranges and southwest to the St. Elias Mountains. Most First Nations people from this area identify as descendants of Southern Tutchone speakers and follow a matriarchal moiety system with two clans, Kajèt (Crow Clan) and Agunda (Wolf Clan). Other ancestors came from Tlingit, Upper Tanana, and Northern Tutchone communities. Kluane First Nation signed their Final and Self-Governing Agreements in October 2003. The government is located in Burwash Landing, a small, primarily First Nations community in the southwest Yukon.

Council Message

Elders Council Message Youth Council Message Turning Memories into a Book A Note on Language
History of LHù’ààn Mân Keyí (Kluane Lake Country)

• The Ways of Our Ancestors
• Dan k’e Dan k’e (We Know People by What They Say): Two Stories in Dań k’e and English
• Dan k’e (We Know People by Their Dance Words)
• Kwäday Dan (Long-Ago People): 10,000 Years before Present to 1700s Guch’àn (Other People) Come to Our Land: 1740s–1890s
• The Klondike Gold Rush and Building Burwash Landing: 1896–1940 The Yukon Archaeological Expedition: 1948
• The Alaska Highway Brings Troubled Times: 1942–1972
• Kwäday Dan Jenntth’à (Hearing Our Elders, Reclaiming Our Lands and Our Lives): 1970s–2003
• Kluane First Nation Self-Government: 2003

Kwäday dän uye Kwànjì (Our Elders Remember)

• Tùlhàsèn (Lena Johnson): The Plan Was Really Good (1926) Gushàka (Margaret Johnson): Living the Old Ways (1929) Dorothy Johnson: Learn from Your Parents! (1934)
• Koołseen (Hank Jacquot): I’ll Tell You a Story (1934)
• Shakwàn` che (Kluane Martin): It Was Challenging Sometimes (1935)
• Louise Bouvier: Coming Home to Kluane (1937)
• Dän Ju Däjel (Peter Johnson): Title TBC with family (1937)
• Jèdàlįmą (Agnes Johnson): Life Has Changed So Much (1943)
• Dennis Dickson: I Went All Over to Work in My Life (1943)
• Gùdia Shäw (Mary Easterson): Good Teaching from Our Elders and Community (1945)
• Doug Sias: Just Really Good People (1952)
• Sulkajunaghraw (Gloria Johnson): Following Grandma—Tsal KàJana (Gopher Lady, Copper Lily) (1952)
• Gùdia (Sharon Kabanak): Lhù’ààn Mân Yu Nìínje (Where I Come From) (1953) Bertha Doris: My Traditions Are Still in My Heart (1954)
• Keith Johnson: We Were Always Working (1954)
• Da Kwäthala mą (Joyce Johnson-Albert): The Strength of Grandma
• Kept Us Going (1956)
• Gùdia (Mary Jane Johnson): It Needs to Be Done, You Do It (1956) Alyce Johnson: Teachings from Our Trails (1957)
• Ernest Martin: Lessons from Grandma Grace (1958)
• Antera (Joe Bruneau): You’re Never Too Old to Learn (1947) Sandy Johnson: There’s A Lot Going On Here (1947)
• David Dubois: Kluane—Beautiful Land, Beautiful People (1949)

Dan Jenntth’ąą? (You Understand People?) – Celebrating and Growing Together: 2003–2023
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