In early December 2012, Alaska Native language faculty members Alice Taff and Xh’unei Lance Twitchell led a workshop in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, for the Council for Yukon First Nations. They introduced the mentor-apprentice approach to five language teams during the three-day event. These teams included Northern Tutchone, Southern Tuchone, Han, Gwich’in and Tlingit languages.