Alaskan Athabaskans

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Alaskan Athabascans

Former Gwichʼin grand chief Clarence Alexander in 2004
Total population
6,400[1]
Regions with significant populations
Alaska
Languages
Northern Athabaskan languages, American English (Alaskan variant), Russian (historically)
Religion
Shamanism (largely ex), Christianity

The Alaskan Athabascans,^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]} Alaskan Athapascans^[8] or Dena^[9] (Russian: атабаски Аляски, атапаски Аляски)^[10] are Alaska Native peoples of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. They are the original inhabitants of the interior of Alaska.^{[citation needed]}

Formerly they identified as a people by the word Tinneh (nowadays Dena; cf. Dene for Canadian Athabaskans). Taken from their own language, it means simply "men" or "people".^[11]