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-Margaret Workman, Äyedindaya
+Margaret Workman, nee Smith, Äyedindaya (b. 1938)
-Margaret Workman was born into the Wolf clan at Aishihik and was raised knowing how to live on the land.((“Margaret Workman, Dákeyi Our Country – Southern Tutchone Place Names." 2020 website: http://ynlc.ca/dakeyi/00intro/workmandakeyi.html.)) She was placed in the Baptist Mission School in Whitehorse at age seven where she was confined to speaking English.((“Margaret Workman Literacy Award.” //Dàkwäni,// Fall 2015: 15.))
+Margaret Smith was born at Victoria Lake, near Mount Nansen and is a member of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations. Her great-grandfather was Chief Isaac of Aishihik.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 228-29.)) She was born into the Wolf clan at Aishihik and was raised knowing how to live on the land.((“Margaret Workman, Dákeyi Our Country – Southern Tutchone Place Names." 2020 website: http://ynlc.ca/dakeyi/00intro/workmandakeyi.html.)) She was placed in the Baptist Mission School in Whitehorse at age seven where she was confined to speaking English.((“Margaret Workman Literacy Award.” //Dàkwäni,// Fall 2015: 15.)) She retained her fluency in Southern Tutchone and became recognized as a master speaker.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 228-29.))
+Margaret married a non-native and lost her Status. She joined the Yukon Association of Non Status Indians (YANSI) and became president of the Haines Junction Local in 1973 and 1977 and vice-president in the mid-1970s. She was a key organizer for projects and attended conferences and meetings in Whitehorse.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 228-29.))
-Margaret Workman has a Native Language Instructor certificate and a diploma from Yukon College. In 2001, she received an Associate of Applied Science Degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She gained extensive experience teaching Southern Tutchone at all levels of the school system including Yukon College and the University of Alaska. Margaret developed the first grades 11 and 12 Athapaskan language program at F.H. Collins Secondary School in Whitehorse. She was the original impetus for creating the Dákeyi CD ROM project (published 1996). In 1998, she received an Innovations in Teaching Award from the Yukon Department of Education. In 2000, she published //Kwädây Kwändür: Traditional Southern Tutchone Stories,// compiled and translated from interviews with seven elders.((“Margaret Workman, Dákeyi Our Country – Southern Tutchone Place Names." 2020 website: http://ynlc.ca/dakeyi/00intro/workmandakeyi.html.))
+Margaret Workman has a Native Language Instructor certificate and a diploma from Yukon College. In 2001, she received an Associate of Applied Science Degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She gained extensive experience teaching Southern Tutchone at all levels of the school system including Yukon College and the University of Alaska. Margaret developed the first grades 11 and 12 Athapaskan language program at F.H. Collins Secondary School in Whitehorse. She was the original impetus for creating the Dákeyi CD ROM project (published 1996). In 1998, she received an Innovations in Teaching Award from the Yukon Department of Education. In 2000, she published //Kwädây Kwändür: Traditional Southern Tutchone Stories,// compiled and translated from interviews with seven elders.((“Margaret Workman, Dákeyi Our Country – Southern Tutchone Place Names." 2020 website: http://ynlc.ca/dakeyi/00intro/workmandakeyi.html.)) In 2001, she was awarded an Associated of Applied Science degree from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 228-29.))
 Margaret was one of the original members of the Yukon Geographical Place Names Board and was re-appointed on June 1, 2004 for her third term. She retired in June 2004 after being a Southern Tutchone (Dákwänje) language specialist for over twenty years.((Yukon Geographical Place Names Board, 2004-2005 Annual Report.)) In 2015, Workman was given the National Council of the Federation Literacy Award, established by Canada’s premiers to recognise achievements in literacy.((“Yukon educator wins National literary award.” //CBC News,// 8 September 2015, 2020 website: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-educator-wins-national-literacy-award-1.3220055)) It celebrated her lifelong commitment to the preservation of Indigenous language in the Yukon and counted her among Canada’s leaders in literacy.((“Margaret Workman Literacy Award.” //Dàkwäni,// Fall 2015: 15.))