Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Tanana Athabaskans Tanana Athabascans or Tanana Athapaskans are an Alaskan Athabaskan peoples of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. They are the original inhabitants of the Tanana River (in Tanana languages Tth’itu’ literally «straight water» in Koyukon language Tene No’ literally «trail water») drainage basin in east-central Alaska Interior United States and a little part (White River First Nation) lived in Yukon Canada.