Hän

General Resources

Read about the Hän language.

Hän Encouragement Phrases Poster
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Hän Alphabet Chart

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Interactive Storybook with Audio

Tằ’ò Wëdëk – At Home by Percy Henry

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Interactive Language Lesson with Audio

Hän Audio Lesson
Moosehide Dialect
Recorded by Percy Henry

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Downloadable Learner Resources

About These Resources

This page provides links to digital copies of language lessons, literacy session booklets, and story books that have been prepared over the past thirty years by the Yukon Native Language Centre and Hän Elders and community members, including from Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation in the Yukon. The work of all contributors to these materials is gratefully acknowledged here.

Recognizing the importance for Yukon First Nations governments, Elders, advocates, learners, and teachers of Hän to have access to language resources, the Council of Yukon First Nations‘ Yukon Native Language Centre and Yukon Education‘s First Nations Programs and Partnerships Unit have worked together to provide the language materials below with assistance from Christopher Cox. These digital resources are available for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Creative Commons License. It is hoped that they will provide additional support for all those interested in studying, learning, and teaching the Kaska language. To order printed copies of any of these resources from YNLC, please consult the current catalogue of publications.

Language Lessons with Audio

Hän Language Lessons
Henry, Percy and Yukon Native Language Centre. 2011.   | Download Audio

Hän Language Lessons: Eagle, Alaska Dialect
Juneby, Isaac and Yukon Native Language Centre.   | Download Audio

Storybooks and ReadAlong Storybooks with Audio

Tä̀ʼò Nä̀täzrè. Tä̀ʼò Goes Hunting (PDF)
ReadAlong Storybook with audio
Roberts, Edward and Yukon Native Language Centre. 1996.

Łuk Trʼohgąy Hä̀hjä̀k. The Fish Camp (PDF)
ReadAlong Storybook with audio
Roberts, Edward and Yukon Native Language Centre. 2008.

Listening Exercises

Hän Language Listening Exercises. Eagle, Alaska, Dialect
Juneby, Isaac, Yukon Native Language Centre, and Alaska Native Language Center, 1995. 

Hän Language Listening Exercises. Trʼondëk Dialect (Dawson and Moosehide, Yukon).
Roberts, Edward and Yukon Native Language Centre. 1996.

Literacy Sessions and In-Services

Table of Contents for Literacy Sessions
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  1. Han Literacy Sessions. Dawson City, Yukon, June 3, 4, 5, 1992. Whitehorse, Yukon, December 7, 8, 9, 10, 1992.
  2. Hän Literacy Sessions. Dawson City, Yukon, June 2, 3, 4, 1993. Whitehorse, Yukon, December 8, 9, 10, 1993.
  3. Hän Literacy Session. Dawson City, Yukon, June 6, 7, 8, 1994.
  4. Hän Literacy Session. Whitehorse, Yukon, December 7, 8, 9, 1994.
  5. Hän Literacy Session. Dawson City, Yukon, June 6, 7, 8, 1995.
  6. Hän Literacy Session. Dawson City, Yukon, June 4, 5, 6, 1996.
  7. Hän Literacy Session. Hosted Jointly by Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation and Yukon Native Language Centre. Trʼondëk Heritage Centre, Dawson City, Yukon, June 3, 4, 5, 1997.
  8. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, March 4, 5, 6, 1998.
  9. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, December 4–6, 2001.
  10. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, December 3–5, 2002.
  11. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, December 2–4, 2003.
  12. Hän Literacy Session. Dawson City, Yukon, June 1–3, 2004. Hosted by Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation Language Program.
  13. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, December 7–9, 2004.
  14. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, December 7–8, 2005.
  15. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, December 5–7, 2006.
  16. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, December 3–6, 2007.
  17. Hän Literacy In-Service. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, December 3–5, 2008.
  18. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, December 1–3, 2009.
  19. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, Novmeber 30–December 2, 2010.
  20. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, Nov 29–Dec 2, 2011.
  21. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, Nov 21–23, 2012.
  22. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, December 3–5, 2013.
  23. Hän Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, December 2–4, 2014.

For detailed instructions on how to search, view, download, and print these materials, please see the language learning resources guide.

This embedded document contains all Hän print resources. It allows you to search all documents at one time. Click your mouse in the document window below and then Type ‘Ctrl’ and ‘f’ keys on your keyboard. Type in a search word or phrase in the small box that pops up and then hit ‘enter’ key. You can type in english or Kaska but you cannot use diacritics in the search.

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Other Learning Resources

  1. YNLC Hän YouTube Channel
  2. Hän Alphabet
  3. Language Map
  4. First Voices
  5. Making Fry Bread – Eagle Dialect
  6. Doyon Foundation – Isaac Juneby – Online Language Learning Lessons
  7. Alaska Native Languages
  8. Omniglot – the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages