 It was formerly known as "Clachotin", adopted by Canadian French.Jules Jetté (1864–1927), a Jesuit missionary who worked in the area and documented the language, recorded the Koyukon Athabascan name for the village as "Hohudodetlaatl Denh", literally, ‘where the area has been chopped’.Several residents are chronicled in the 2012 Discovery Channel TV series "Yukon Men."