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| Chief Isaac (c1847 – 1932) | Chief Isaac (c1847 – 1932) |
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| Chief Isaac and his brothers Jonathon Wood and Walter Benjamin came from the area around Eagle, Alaska before the gold rush.((Craig Mishler and William E. Simone, //Hän Hwëch’in: People of the River.// University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2004: 108.)) Isaac lived at Forty Mile when he was young, and Bishop Bompas gave him his Christian name Isaac. Jonathon was a lay reader at the St. Barnabas Church in Moosehide, and Walter Benjamin presided at the Episcopal Church mission in Eagle, Alaska. Isaac was living in Forty Mile when his marriage was arranged, and he went to the Klondike River to marry Eliza Harper, the daughter of a Han hereditary chief ‘Gah St’at (aka Abraham Harper). Chief ‘Gah St’at (Catseah / Catsah) named Isaac a chief after he and Eliza married.((Joy Isaac, //Chief Isaac’s People of the River.// 2018 website: http://chiefisaac.com/the_isaac_family.html)) | Chief Isaac and his brothers Jonathon Wood and Walter Benjamin came from the area around Eagle, Alaska before the gold rush.((Craig Mishler and William E. Simone, //Hän Hwëch’in: People of the River.// University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2004: 108.)) Chief Isaac's father was the brother of Chief Carley [Nootlah] of Forty Mile.((Robert Jarvenpa, //Northern Passage: Ethnography and Apprenticeship among the subarctic Dene.// Waveland Press, 1998: 46.)) Isaac lived at Forty Mile when he was young, and Bishop Bompas gave him his Christian name Isaac. Jonathon was a lay reader at the St. Barnabas Church in Moosehide, and Walter Benjamin presided at the Episcopal Church mission in Eagle, Alaska. Isaac was living in Forty Mile when his marriage was arranged, and he went to the Klondike River to marry Eliza Harper, the daughter of a Han hereditary chief ‘Gah St’at (aka Abraham Harper). Chief ‘Gah St’at (Catseah / Catsah) named Isaac a chief after he and Eliza married.((Joy Isaac, //Chief Isaac’s People of the River.// 2018 website: http://chiefisaac.com/the_isaac_family.html)) |
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| During the Klondike gold rush, the residents of the Dawson area were short of food. Tappan Adney travelled with Chief Isaac on a hunting trip up the Klondike River in a party of about forty or fifty people and as many dogs. The manager of the Alaska Commercial Company (AC Co) had refused to grubstake the hunters, instead offering to trade goods for meat. This was a change from the way the trading company had operated before the gold rush. The hunters returned to Dawson with about eighty moose and sixty-five caribou most of which they sold to the Dawson miners under the advice of the ACCo manager.((Tappan Adney, “Moose Hunting with the Tro-chu-tin.” //Harper’s New Monthly Magazine,// Vol. C, No. DXVIII. March 1900. 2018 website: http://chiefisaac.com/moose_hunting.html)) After this experience the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in took other hunting trips to supply themselves and Dawson with meat.((//The Yukon Sun// (Dawson), 25 May 1901; “Chief Isaacs Off to the Forks,” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), September 1, 1902.)) \\ | During the Klondike gold rush, the residents of the Dawson area were short of food. Tappan Adney travelled with Chief Isaac on a hunting trip up the Klondike River in a party of about forty or fifty people and as many dogs. The manager of the Alaska Commercial Company (AC Co) had refused to grubstake the hunters, instead offering to trade goods for meat. This was a change from the way the trading company had operated before the gold rush. The hunters returned to Dawson with about eighty moose and sixty-five caribou most of which they sold to the Dawson miners under the advice of the ACCo manager.((Tappan Adney, “Moose Hunting with the Tro-chu-tin.” //Harper’s New Monthly Magazine,// Vol. C, No. DXVIII. March 1900. 2018 website: http://chiefisaac.com/moose_hunting.html)) After this experience the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in took other hunting trips to supply themselves and Dawson with meat.((//The Yukon Sun// (Dawson), 25 May 1901; “Chief Isaacs Off to the Forks,” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), September 1, 1902.)) \\ |
