For many thousands of years the Southern Tutchone had seasonal hunting and fishing camps in the area of present-day Haines Junction. The original name of the area was "Dakwakada", a Southern Tutchone word meaning "high cache". It was common for Tutchone people to use raised log caches to store food year-round or temporarily while they hunted and fished in an area.
HainesJunction is a village in the Yukon Territory, Canada.
The current town of HainesJunction was established in 1942 and 1943 during the construction of the Alaska Highway.
Situated at the junction of these two highways, HainesJunction was a construction camp and a supply and service centre for the US Army Corps of Engineers building the highway.
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