Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation
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Lands
Old Crow and the surrounding homeland in northern Yukon, Canada
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Facts 3
Today
Old Crow, a fly-in community of about 300 people on the Porcupine River, is the seat of the Vuntut Gwitchin government.
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Land
The Van Tat Gwich'in homeland covers about 55,548 square kilometres of northern Yukon, along the migration routes of the Porcupine caribou herd.
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Language
Dinjii Zhuh k'yuu, the Gwich'in language, is the official language of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, which is training teachers and raising young speakers.
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