Taku people

Not to be confused with Taku River Tlingit First Nation in British Columbia.
Taku
Chief Anotklosh of the Taku Tribe, ca. 1913
Regions with significant populations
United States (Alaska)
Languages
Tlingit, English
Related ethnic groups
Tlingit

The Taku are an Alaska Native people, a ḵwáan or geographic subdivision of the Tlingit, known in their own language as the Tʼaaḵu Ḵwáan or "Geese Flood Upriver Tribe". The Taku traditionally lived along the northwestern coast of North America, in the area that is now the Alexander Archipelago of Alaska, and on the lower basin of the Taku River of the adjoining British Columbia mainland above that river's mouth.

Some Taku Tlingit are enrolled in the Douglas Indian Association, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Juneau. Others are enrolled in the Taku River Tlingit First Nation, a First Nation in Canada.

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