Kluane First Nation

The Kluane First Nation (KFN) is a small First Nation in Yukon in Canada. Its main centre is in Burwash Landing, Yukon on Kluane Lake along the Alaska Highway. The native language spoken by the people of this First Nation is Southern Tutchone.

The Kluane people occupy a traditional territory that extends from the St. Elias Mountains in the south, bounded to the east by the southern end of Kluane Lake and the A'ay Chu (formerly Slims River), by the Ruby Range to the north, extending almost to the Nisling River, and on the west by the Donjek River, as far north as its confluence with the Kluane River that drains the territory's largest lake. It includes the Tachal Region of Kluane National Park and Reserve.

Within this region, the three main defining topographic feature are the St. Elias Mountains to the south and west, the Shakwak Trench, which includes Kluane Lake, and the Kluane and Ruby Range to the east and north, which are part of the Yukon Plateau. the region is characterized by extremes of elevation, including some of the highest mountains in Canada, extreme temperature (-62C to +32C), low precipitation, wind and widespread permafrost.

The Kluane First Nation signed a land claims agreement in 2003.

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