In later times, the Han population became centered in Dawson City, Yukon and Eagle, Alaska[citation needed].

One was established by Moses Mercier, a former employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, in Belle Isle across the Eagle River.

The other, Fort Reliance, was established on the Yukon, just below the mouth of the Klondike River, near Dawson, by two Alaska Commercial Company traders, Leroy N. McQuesten and Frank Bonifield.

Bishop William Bompas established the first Anglican Church mission in Hän territory, and gradually the people shifted away from traditional religion.

The women traditionally cooked by boiling food with water heated by stones that been placed in a fire and then dropped in woven spruce-root baskets.

The people erected temporary domed houses made of skin stretched over tied branches when they were traveling.

The language was used as a lingua franca by Gwich’in, Tutchone, Tagish, and Upper Tanana peoples toward the end of the 19th century during the Gold Rush in the Yukon.