Lḵoot (Place of Abundance of Food)

This is the name given to the village that was on the Chilkoot River between the lake and the mouth of the river. This village was smaller than Tlákw.aan and Yandeist’akyé, possessing only eight houses and 120 inhabitants according to Petroff’s 1880 census (though this number is bound to be an underestimate, and the population was likely much higher historically [13]). In the post-contact era Lkoot was ravaged by disease, damaged by landslides, and eventually abandoned, as people became consolidated in the larger settlement of Haines by the 1930s. [6]