The Tagish occupy the southern Lakes region of the Yukon, their language is an Athapaskan dialect, however their culture over the last 300 years or so has merged with the Tlingit culture, creating a unique situation where many of people in this area are of both ancestries. The original village site is in Tagish while the town of Carcross was a hunting area where the people hunted caribou before White Pass Railways came to be in the late 1800s. The Tagish were known as the middlemen between the Interior Athapaskans and the Coastal Tlingits of Southeast Alaska. The partnership of the Yukon people and the coastal people has been one of cooperation. The modern day political organization is the Carcross/Tagish First Nation.