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John Brown Nulata (1922 – 2005)
	
John Brown was born in 1922 at the hay ranch below Champagne. He grew up at Six Mile across Dezadeash Lake. He was a member of the Wolf Clan and the son of Kitty Johnson and Johnny Brown. As a youth he trapped with his family around Kathleen Lake, Mush and Bates lakes, and on the Tatshenshini River. John lived on the land and raised foxes and mink with his family at Six Mile in the 1920s and ‘30s. He travelled by horse, dog team and even skated to Champagne on the river.((Gary McRobb, "Tribute in Recognition of John Brown" as given to the Yukon Legislative Assembly on May 17, 2006 in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College, 2007: 104-5.)) In September 1928, John Brown sold twenty mink to George Simmons for a good price. Simmons took them to his ranch at Carcross.((//Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse, 28 September 1928.))
	
In 1948, John Brown married Sadie Jackson at the Anglican Church in Haines Junction and they settled in the community.((Gary McRobb, "Tribute in Recognition of John Brown" as given to the Yukon Legislative Assembly on May 17, 2006 in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College, 2007: 104-5.)) In his younger days was a competitive dog musher and won top prize in the first Winter Carnival (Rendezvous) in 1945. John was a fishing guide for Bun Beloud on the area lakes and he worked for a time doing maintenance work and contract on the Haines Road. He started work at the Kluane Experimental Farm in 1967. From 1973 to 1985, he was a maintenance worker for Kluane National Park with this brother -in-law Moose Jackson. After retiring in 1985, John spent time on his trap line at Six Mile, hunting and fishing. He worked with CAFN to identify the old trail and Tutchone and Tlingit place names around Dezadeash Lake.((John Brown, Celebration of Life pamphlet.))
	
During the last thirty years of his life, John was an ordained minister with the Pentecostal Church and founded his own chapel in Haines Junction. He played the guitar and fiddle and was a social man who enjoyed time with family and friends, entertaining them with music and stories. John provided religious services at several potlatch funerals with his wife at this side.((Gary McRobb, "Tribute in Recognition of John Brown" as given to the Yukon Legislative Assembly on May 17, 2006 in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College, 2007: 104-5.))