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{{short description|Athabaskan ethnolinguistic group native to the Yukon Territory of Canada}}
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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Tagish<br />''Tā̀gish kotʼīnèʼ''
| image            = 
| image_caption    = 17: Tagish area
| poptime          = 
| popplace         = Canada ([[Yukon]])
| langs            = English, [[Tagish language|Tagish]]
| rels             = [[Christianity]], [[Animism]]
| related          = [[Kaska Dena]], [[Tahltan]]
}}
[[File:Charlie Skookum.jpg|thumb|Charlie Skookum, a Tagish medicine man, in 1914.]]

The '''Tagish''' or '''Tagish Khwáan''' ([[Tagish language|Tagish]]: {{lang|tgx|Tā̀gish kotʼīnèʼ}}; {{langx|tli|Taagish ḵwáan}}) are a [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] people of the [[Athabaskan languages|Athabaskan]]-speaking [[ethnolinguistic group]] that lived around [[Tagish Lake]] and [[Marsh Lake]], in [[Yukon]] of Canada. The Tagish intermarried heavily with [[Tlingit]] from the coast and the [[Tagish language]] became extinct in 2008. Today Tagish people live mainly in [[Carcross]] or [[Whitehorse]] and are members of the [[Carcross/Tagish First Nation]] or the [[Kwanlin Dün First Nation]].

Members of the Tagish First Nation made the gold discovery that led to the [[Klondike Gold Rush]]: [[Keish|Keish (Skookum Jim Mason)]],<ref>{{cite DCB |url=https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/keish_14E.html |first=Charlene |last=Porsild |title=Keish (Skookum Jim, James Mason) |volume=14}}</ref> [[Kate Carmack|Shaaw Tláa (Kate Carmack)]]<ref>{{cite DCB |url=https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/shaaw_tlaa_14E.html |first=Charlene |last=Porsild |title=Shaaw Tláa (Kate Carmack) |volume=14}}</ref> and [[Dawson Charlie|Káa goox (Dawson Charlie)]].<ref>{{cite DCB |url=https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/kaa_goox_13E.html |first=Julie |last=Cruikshank |title=Káa goox (Charlie, Dawson Charlie) |volume=13}}</ref>

The word ''Tagish'' also refers to the Tagish language, an Athabaskan language spoken by the ancestors of these people.

''Tagish'' means "it (spring ice) is breaking up" and also gave its name to Tagish Lake.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.ynlc.ca/tagish.shtml Yukon Native Language Centre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126041527/http://www.ynlc.ca/tagish.shtml |date=2021-11-26 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070710053256/http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ynlc/languages/tg/tg.html Yukon Native Language Centre]<!--Displays the Yukon College homepage-->
*[http://www.ctfn.ca Carcross/Tagish First Nation]

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[[Category:First Nations in Yukon]]
[[Category:Athabaskan peoples]]