Tags: Ethnic Group.
Not to be confused with the Taku River Tlingit First Nation in British Columbia.The Taku are an Alaskan Native people a ḵwáan or geographic subdivision of the Tlingit known in their own language as the Tʼaaḵu Ḵwáan or Geese Flood Upriver Tribe. The Taku lived along the northwestern coast of North America in the area that is now the Alexander Archipelago of Alaska and on the lower basin of the Taku River of the adjoining British Columbia mainland above that river’s mouth.