FDI - Tagish

The Tagish were a nomadic hunter/gatherer tribe. They lived about Tagish and Marsh Lakes in the Yukon, but ranged into British Columbia. They were closely related to the Tahltan and had little early contact with the Whites due to their remote territories. That was all changed by the Klondike gold rush in which gold was first discovered by Tagish tribal members Skookum Jim and Tagish Charley.

Aboriginal Locations: Divisions

YT Carcross, Marsh Lake, Tagish

Year	*History*
1883	Lt. F. Schwatka of US military passed through territory on a reconnaissance mission
1896	Tagish Skookum Jim discovered the first nuggets that led to the Klondike gold rush
1898	Klondike gold rush
1900	Most relocated to Carcross; 40,000 prospectors had passed through territory
1998	Klondike gold discoverers Tagish Skookum Jim Mason, Tagish Charley and Klondike prospectors George Carmack and Robert Henderson inducted into the Canadian Mining hall of Fame

TagishTribe Sites:

Canadian Mining Hall of Fame Inductees http://www.halloffame.mining.ca/halloffame/english/bios/carmack.html

Carcross Tagish http://www.yfnta.org/community/Profile.asp?First_Nation=1

Carcross Tagish Dancers http://www.inventivewomen.com/library/library_clarashinkle_yk.shtml

Carcross Tagish First Nation http://www.ctfn.ca/

Carcross Tagish First Nation ... http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nr/prs/s-d2005/02718bbk_e.html

Carcross/Tagish First Nation http://www.bctreaty.net/nations_3/carcross.html

Carcross/Tagish First Nation: Four Mountains Resort http://www.fourmountainsresort.com/ctfn.html

Carcross/Tagish First Nations http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/yukon/pro_yt.php

Carcross/Tagish First Nation Signs Agreements http://www.gov.yk.ca/news/2005/05-271.html

Carcross Tagish Statement of Intent http://www.bctreaty.net/soi_3/soicarcross.html

Carcross Tagish Tlingit http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/carcross/tlingit/tlingit.htm

Ethnographic and Archaeological Investigations of Alpine Ice Patches in Southwest Yukon, Canada http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3712/is_200409/ai_n9426134/pg_6

Gold Discovery in the Klondike http://north-land.com/ypa/KlondikeDiscovery.html

Gold Rush History http://www.nps.gov/klgo/adhi/adhi1.htm

Klondike Gold Rush http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/case/209_feature.html

Klondike Gold Rush http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=ArchivedFeatures&Params=A2140

Klondike Gold Rush http://www.yukonterritorycanada.ca/history.html

Kwanlin Dun First Nation http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/yukon/pro_yt5.php

Tagish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagish

Tagish http://www.southernlakesyukon.com/tagish.html

Tagish http://www.tagishwildernesslodge.com/etagstory.html

Tagish Button Blanket http://www.invitationproject.ca/cgi-win/quilt.exe?LISTING=1350

Tagish Charley with Dog Sled http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/htmlview.exe?CISOROOT=/loc&CISOPTR=1312

Tagish History, Yukon Territory http://www.yukonalaska.com/communities/tagishhist.html

Tagish Language http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ynlc/YNLCinfo/Tagish.html

Tagish Language http://www.ydli.org/langs/tagish.htm

Tagish Language http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=TGX

Tagish Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_lang_family.asp?code=TGX

Traditional Culture and Heritage of Carcross/Tagish First Nation People http://www.ctfn.ca/general/brochure/1.html

Aug	SEP	Oct
	26
2006	2007	2008

*Ethnie:*	TAGISH
*Dialects*	Tagish
*Language:*	Tahltan-Kaska
*Family:*	Athapaskan
*Stock:*	Nuclear Na-Dene
*Phylum:*	Na-Dene
*Macro-Culture:*	Rocky Mountian Western Plateau

Year	YT Population	Source
1700	100	NAHDB calculation
1800	100	NAHDB calculation
1887	75	Dawson
1900	100	NAHDB calculation
1950	112	McLellan
1978	111	CDIA (partial count)
2000	400	NAHDB calculation
2005	428	Indian Life Online