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I chose to evaluate the article "Southern Tutchone" this article is mostly based on the culture, rather then the language as I saw a different article labeled "Tutchone Language". Regardless the article that I am evaluating lacks any citation and reputable sources. The first thing I noticed was that even though there is neat information noted regarding Kwanlin Dun people there is not any other information that is relevant to the subject. The article lacks demographic information, and does not include proper citations therefore I feel that this article needs to be edited to include this, along with other relevant information. Another thing I noticed which was neat was the inclusion of some Southern Tutchone words - some of the words that I saw included in the article were not properly spelt which leads to suspicions on the rest of the article itself.

Southern Tutchone Language The Southern Tutchone people named by the late Catharine McClellan; are a group of Athabaskan speaking indigenous people of Southern Yukon, Canada. In other words Southern Tutchone stands for "Dän'ke" referring to "our way" in the athabaskan language. This territory stretches over the south-west Yukon, and is controversial in what is overlap with different indigenous groups of people in Yukon. The Tutchone language was separated into two groups by McClellan in which she called them Southern and Northern Tutchone. The languages themselves are close, but are different in subtle dialects.

Demographics In the early 1950's there were close to 20,000 Southern Tutchone speaking individuals.This has since plumped to less then a few hundred speakers.

Revitalization Efforts The Southern Tutchone language even though it is considered endangered there has been revitalization efforts in place to help combat the dwindling numbers. This includes signage throughout the Yukon highlighting the language. Other revitalization efforts includes an adult immersion program focused on increasing the number of speakers in the Champagne and Aishihik traditional territory. In 2015 the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations launched the first Da Ku Nän Ts'tthèt (Our House is Waking Up the Land) dance festival which focused on Southern Tutchone language and culture. This was hosted at the cultural centre named Da Ku, meaning "our house" in Southern Tutchone.

Landclaims In other places in the Southern Tutchone region there are four First Nations governments that have settled their land claims in the Southern Tutchone cultural area these include:

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations (Haines Junction)

Ta'an Kwach'an Council (Lake Laberge)

Kluane First Nation (Burwash Landing)

Kwanlin Dün First Nations (Whitehorse)

References MacClellan, C. (1987). Part of the land, part of the water: a history of the Yukon Indians.

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre.

McClellan, C. (2001) My Old People Say: an Ethnographic Survey of Southern Yukon Territory. Canadian Museum of Civilization.

https://cafn.ca/about/our-ways/

https://cyfn.ca/agreements/umbrella-final-agreement/

http://www.whitehorsestar.com/News/southern-tutchone-will-adorn-city-signs

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/southern-tutchone-revitalization-yukon-1.4467314 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khchambers12 (talk • contribs) 23:51, 19 March 2018 (UTC)