Kon-it'l
Frederick Schwatka met Kon-it'l, the chief of what Schwatka called the Ayans, the Northern Tutchone based around Fort Selkirk, in 1883. Schwatka left Fort Selkirk about noon and, at about four o’clock, came across a very large camp on the Yukon River. There was about 150 Indigenous people on the narrow beach in front of their brush village on the south side of the river. When Schwatka's raft was secured, the people started to sing and dance, the men and boys on the left and the girls and women on the right. The medicine men in front of the line. One had a blue-black blanket with a St. George's cross in the middle. The people did not want knives, saws, or files, but requested tobacco and tea and then fish hooks. They traded horn spoons, birch bark ladles and buckets, and gambling sticks. The people claimed the country up the Pelly and up the Yukon to Kit-ah-gon [Minto] and down to near the mouth of the White and Stewart rivers. Below them was the Netch-on'dees or Na-chon'-des, this being the name of the Stewart River. The semi-permanent village was called Kah-tung and contained about twenty compound huts. The people were smoking salmon and there was a horde of dogs. Most of the men had bows and arrows but there were a few Hudson Bay Company flint-lock rifles. The village was just on the other side of where the Pelly basalt cliffs end.1)