The second migration to Alaska occurred 9,000 to 14,000 years ago.  They were a group of people who spoke a family of languages known as Na-Dene.  Migrating from the forests of northeastern Siberia, these people settled in the interior of Alaska and Western Canada, becoming the ancestors of the Athabaskan, Tlingit, and Eyak of today's Alaska and Canada.  Some groups of Na-Dene speakers migrated as far as Mexico, becoming the Navajo and Apache peoples of the American Southwest. 

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