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Koyukon Athabascan People Case Study

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This week's focus was on the Koyukon Athabascan people. We focused on the Koyukon Athabascan geography and environment, way of subsistence, kinship, and the Koyukon Athabascan cosmology. The Koyukon Athabascan people have a deep and complex culture that lives around the Yukon river, Kantishna river, and Koyukuk river which is a combination of lowland flats, bogs, and if you go up river the terrain gets more mountainous. With this kind of environment the Koyukon Athabascan people live on the resources around them which is fish from the rivers. The Koyukon Athabascan people also hunt moose, and caribou as a secondary method of subsistence. In the Koyukon Athabascan culture kinship is based on matrilineal clan in the Upper Yukon and Koyukuk

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