Koyukon

The Koyukon are an Athabaskan people indigenous to the Yukon River valley in west-central Alaska. Their name is also given to the Koyukuk River, a significant tributary of the Yukon River that flows through central Alaska. Historically, like other Subarctic peoples, the Koyukon were subsistence hunters and gatherers, with their social organization typically centered around nuclear or three-generation families, forming bands of 20 to 30 individuals. Their traditional culture, like that of other indigenous North American groups, emphasized animism, shamanism, and individual communion with the spirit world.1234