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| Dick Nukon, Tl-yah (b. 1925) | Dick Nukon, Tl-yah (b. 1925) |
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| Dick Nukon (tl-yah or "rope") was born in Eagle, Alaska and his parents John and Miria Nukon brought him to Old Crow in 1927. He remembers when he was two years old coming through the Ogilvie Mountains by dog team. They travelled with eight family members, brothers and sisters and parents. His father, John Nukon was originally from [Fort McPherson]. He moved to Dawson in 1898 and then he moved on to Eagle, Alaska.((Earl Darbyshire, “Dick Nukon,” Dan Sha News, March 1989 in //In Their Honor,// Ye Sa To Communications Society, Whitehorse, 1989: 43-45.)) | Dick Nukon (tl-yah or "rope") was born in Eagle, Alaska and his parents John and Miria Nukon brought him to Old Crow in 1927. He remembers when he was two years old coming through the Ogilvie Mountains by dog team. They travelled with eight family members, brothers and sisters and parents. His father, John Nukon was originally from [Fort McPherson]. He moved to Dawson in 1898 and then he moved on to Eagle, Alaska.((Earl Darbyshire, “Dick Nukon.” //Dan Sha News,// March 1989 in //In Their Honor,// Ye Sa To Communications Society, Whitehorse, 1989: 43-45.)) |
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| When surveyors cut a line through the bush to mark the Yukon/Alaska border, John Nukon wanted to be Canadian so he and the family moved to Whitestone.((Roxanne Livingstone, "Whitestone is where his heart is." //The Yukon News,// (nd ) in “Whitestone Village investigation Report.” VGFN Heritage Office, November 1999.)) The family ravelled over land to the Porcupine River and then travelled down it in a skin boat that John made. They spoke like people from Eagle and it took Dick about twenty years before he started to understand Van Tut Gwich’in. He had to learn his mother's language. His father was independent and stayed in the bush all the time. He taught the kids how to make a living by trapping and how to respect animals and to share what they had.((Earl Darbyshire, “Dick Nukon.” //Dan Sha News,// March 1989 in //In Their Honor,// Ye Sa To Communications Society, Whitehorse, 1989: 43-45.)) | When surveyors cut a line through the bush to mark the Yukon/Alaska border, John Nukon wanted to be Canadian so he and the family moved to Whitestone.((Roxanne Livingstone, "Whitestone is where his heart is." //The Yukon News,// (nd ) in “Whitestone Village investigation Report.” VGFN Heritage Office, November 1999.)) The family ravelled over land to the Porcupine River and then travelled down it in a skin boat that John made. They spoke like people from Eagle and it took Dick about twenty years before he started to understand Van Tut Gwich’in. He had to learn his mother's language. His father was independent and stayed in the bush all the time. He taught the kids how to make a living by trapping and how to respect animals and to share what they had.((Earl Darbyshire, “Dick Nukon.” //Dan Sha News,// March 1989 in //In Their Honor,// Ye Sa To Communications Society, Whitehorse, 1989: 43-45.)) |
