Tagish
The Tagish or Tagish Khwáan are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that lived around Tagish Lake and Marsh Lake, in Yukon of Canada. Tagish people intermarried heavily with Tlingit people from the coast and the Tagish language became extinct in 2008. Today Tagish people live mainly in Carcross or Whitehorse and are members of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation or the Kwanlin Dün First Nation.
Members of the Tagish First Nation made the gold discovery that led to the Klondike Gold Rush: Keish, Shaaw Tláa ] and Káa goox.
The word Tagish also refers to the Tagish language, an Athabaskan language spoken by the ancestors of these people.
Tagish means "it is breaking up" and also gave its name to Tagish Lake.
