Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Gwich’in (sometimes rendered as Kutchin or Gwitchin) literally one who dwells or resident of [a region] are a First Nations of Canada and an Alaskan Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group who live in the northwestern part of North America mostly above the Arctic Circle. The Gwichʼin were also known by the French name of Loucheux (squinters) in historical documents as well as the Tukudh a term used by Anglican missionaries.
