THESE PEOPLE SPEAK ATHAPASKAN IN ALASKA AND LIVE IN THE YUKON REGION AND THE NUKLUKAYET AND PEEL RIVERS. THEIR POPULATION HAS DECREASED BECAUSE OF WARS BETWEEN TRIBES AND KILLING OF FEMALE CHILDREN. THE CHIEFS AND MEDICINE MEN HAD TWO WIVES. THEIR GAMES ARE MORE MANLY AND RATIONAL, AND THEIR DANCERS ARE RHYTHMICAL. THERE ARE MANY KUTCHIN TRIBES AND THEY HAVE GUESTS HERE FOR MONTHS SOME HEAD OF FAMILY TAKES HIS TURN FASTING UNTIL THEIR GUESTS HAVE DEPARTED.
NATSIT-KUTCHIN MEANS THOSE WHO LIVE OFF THE FLATS. ONE PHD ANTHROPOLOGIST, ERNEST BURCH, NOTES THAT THIS GROUP HAD ANCESTORS WHO DROVE OFF THE DINAI FROM THEIR TERRITORY. HE FIGURES THAT THEY WIPED OUT THESE INDIANS BECAUSE THEY WERE EXTREMELY WAR LIKE.
THE NATSIT WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE ON FOOT FOR FORT YUKON 300 MILES AWAY. THEY STOPPED TO HUNT DURING THEIR JOURNEY (AND PROBABLY GATHERED FRUIT AND EDIBLE PLANTS). IT TOOK THEM ONLY 2 MONTHS DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEIR TRAVEL SEASON TOOK THEM ONLY 2 MONTHS IT WAS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE DUE TO THE WEATHER AND MELTING SNOWS. WITHIN A PERIOD OF 4 MONTHS THEY COVERED 550 MILES. THIS WAS PART OF THEIR ORDINARY CYCLE.
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