Thandlät is a mountain to the west of

Kusawa Lake Kusawa Lake is a lake in the southern Yukon, Canada. ''Kusawa'' means "long narrow lake" in the Tlingit language. The Kusawa Lake is a lake in Canada's Yukon Territory. It is located at an altitude of and is southwest of Whitehorse near the Briti ...

in the

Yukon Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ...

. The first of the Yukon Ice Patches archaeological study artifacts to be discovered in 1997, was an atlatl dart fragment, which was located at an elevation of 1850 m on the mountain.

Etymology

The mountain was named Thandlät in the

Southern Tutchone The Southern Tutchone are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living mainly in the southern Yukon in Canada. The Southern Tutchone language, traditionally spoken by the Southern Tutchone people, is a variet ...

language.

Archaeology

The mountain of Thandlät is cited in literature about the traditional homelands of the

Tlingit The Tlingit ( or ; also spelled Tlinkit) are indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their language is the Tlingit language (natively , pronounced ),

and the

. From Mrs. Annie Ned prepared for Archaeological Survey of Canada, National Museums of Canada. The first of the Yukon Ice Patches archaeological study artifacts to be discovered in 1997, was an atlatl dart fragment, which was located at an elevation of 1850 m on the mountain.

References

{{reflist, 30em Mountains of Yukon Archaeological sites in Yukon