First Nations Culture

Visit the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Center in Whitehorse to learn more about First Nations culture. This specially constructed area honors the Kwanlin Dün First Nation's cultural legacy and is located on the banks of the Chu N'nkwän (Yukon River). Visit Whispering Trees Adventures to learn more about all 14 Yukon First Nations.

Yukon First Nations artists create colorful traditional and contemporary art in a variety of performing and visual mediums. To enthrall audiences at home and abroad, carvers, weavers, sewers, beaders, sculptors, and painters derive inspiration from the environment, culture, languages, history, and communities. Dancers, drummers, actors, writers, poets, and filmmakers join them. In galleries, cultural institutions, festivals, and theaters around the Yukon look for indigenous art.