Han Indians

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
האן (שבט אינדיאני)
Name (Latin)
Han Indians
Name (Arabic)
هنود الهان
Other forms of name
Hankutchin Indians
Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Indians
See Also From tracing topical name
Athapascan Indians
Indians of North America Alaska
Indians of North America Yukon
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q26862
Library of congress: sh 95007863
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Fort Reliance, Yukon, an archaeological assessment, 1995:p. 2 (Fort Reliance also was a Han Indian settlement)
  • Hodge handbk. Am. Ind.:v. 6, pp. 506-513 (the name Han was introduced by Osgood as a shortening of Hankutchin; the Han have no name in their language for themselves as a separate group; the French name for the Han used by Hudson's Bay Company traders was Gens du Fou, Gens de Fou, or Gens de Foux)
  • Web. 3(Han; pl. Han or Hans; an Athapaskan people of the Yukon River district in east central Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada)
  • Dobrowolsky, H. Hammerstones : a history of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in, 2003.