First Nations origins in Yukon
Across Yukon First Nations origin is reported by 8.7 percent of the population in private households, against 1.4 percent across Canada.
Origin in this story: First Nations (North American Indian), unspecified
About 3,380 people in Yukon reported First Nations (North American Indian), unspecified origin. · North
First Nations is reported by 48.6 percent of the population in private households in Carmacks, 43.5 percent in Pelly Crossing and 20.2 percent in Haines Junction.
In the two larger towns the share is 11.5 percent in Dawson and 6.7 percent in Whitehorse.
Across Yukon the response is given by 8.7 percent of the population in private households and across the Northwest Territories by 7.3 percent, against 1.4 percent across Canada.
Within Yukon 7 dissemination areas report First Nations above 25 percent of the population in private households.
Residents may report more than one origin, so the shares across origins can sum to more than 100 percent.
These are answers to the census question on ethnic or cultural origin, not the separate census measures of Indigenous identity, Indigenous ancestry or registered or treaty Indian status, and they must not be read as equivalent. Counts are randomly rounded and several reserves were incompletely enumerated and are blank on the map. See ‘Indigenous origins’ under About this map. The census publishes the two hundred and fifty most reported origins nationally, so many individual Yukon First Nations have no row of their own in the source.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population
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