 means "House on the Flats" in Gwichʼin.What became the village of Fort Yukon developed from a trading post, Fort Yukon, established by Alexander Hunter Murray of the Hudson's Bay Company, on 25 June 1847.Murray drew numerous sketches of fur trade posts and of people and wrote the "Journal of the Yukon, 1847–48", which gave valuable insight into the culture of the Gwich’in at the time.