Kolchan
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Kolchan |
| Ethnie: | KOLCHAN |
| Language: | Upper Kuskowim |
| Family: | Athapaskan |
| Stock: | Nuclear Na-Dene |
| Phylum: | Na-Dene |
| Macro-Culture: | Northwest |
| The Kolchan were a hunter tribe which after the decimation of the caribou in the early 1900's, turned to fishing and hunting other animals. They were located along the middle course of the Koyukon and its tributaries from the conflux of the Swift River to Lake Minchumina. Though contact with the Whites was late, they nonetheless suffered greatly from the introduction of new diseases. |
| Aboriginal Locations (Villages) |
| AK (6) |
| Present Locations |
| AK Doyon Limited, Fairbanks |
| Year | History |
| 1834 | Trading station established by Fedor Kolmakov at Kuygympaynagmyut on the Lower Kuskokwim River, influenza and diphtheria epidemics followed |
| 1838 | First conversions to Russian Orthodox |
| 1899 | Visited by US Army survey expedition |
| Year | Total AK Population | Source | |
| 300 | Spurr aboriginal estimate | ||
| 1700 | 300 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1800 | 300 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1900 | 50 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1910 | 68 | Hosley | |
| 1935 | 50 | Hosley | |
| 1968 | 135 | Hosley | |
| 2000 | 150 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Ingalik |
| Kolchan Sites |
| Arctic Contents http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/scripts/minisa.dll/144/proe/proarc/se+arctic,+v.+21,+no.++1,+Mar.+1968,*?COMMANDSEARCH |
| Denali http://www.nps.gov/dena/home/hrs/hrs1.htm |
| Doyon Limited http://www.doyon.com/ |
| Iditarod National Historic Trail http://www.iditarodnationalhistorictrail.org/CulturalResources.htm |
| Upper Kuskokwim Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kuu |
| Upper Kuskokwim Language http://www.native-languages.org/kuskokwim.htm |
| Upper Kuskokwim Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=kuu |
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