Anthropological Geoscience: Athabascans in the Interior

As I explored the home of the Alaskan Athabascan people –  the Yukon River as it winds from Canada through the Alaska Range, the Alaska Peninsula, and eventually and out to the Chukchi Sea –  I can see how anthropologists and historians were able to divide the approximately 11,000 Alaskan Athabascan people at time of contact into three main groups – the riverine groups, upland groups, and Pacific groups – based on the regions they inhabited and the hunting, fishing, and gathering patterns they followed (Langdon, 81).

Langdon, Steve J. The Native People of Alaska: Traditional living in a northern land.

Anchorage: Greatland Graphics, 2008. Print.