Yukon who is who

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Eliza Isaac, nee Harper (~1873 – 1960)
	
Eliza Harper was the daughter of Hän hereditary chief Gah Ts’yat [aka Abraham Harper].((Craig Mishler and William E. Simone. //Han Hwech'in: people of the river.// Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 2004: 111, 260.)) Catseah (Gah Ts’yat, meaning rabbit skin hat, a hunting leader) the chief of the Trondick [Klondike] people, was visiting Fort Yukon in 1873. Jack McQuesten had planned to establish a trading post either on the Porcupine or Yukon rivers. Catseah was insistent that the trading company build a post near his house. On 27 August 1874, McQuesten arrived five miles below the present town of Dawson.((Copy of letter from McQuesten to Albert McKay, July 1, 1905. Alaska State Library, MS 13, Box 5, #5.))
	
Chief Isaac was the nephew of Chief Carley Nootlah of Forty Mile.((Craig Mishler and William E. Simone, //Hän Hwëch’in: people of the river.// Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 2004: 94-106, 260.)) Isaac was living in Forty Mile when his marriage was arranged, and he went to the Klondike River to marry Eliza 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))
	
Only four of Eliza and Isaac’s thirteen children survived to adulthood: Patricia Lopaschuck [Princess Pat], Charlie Isaac, and Fred Isaac.((Helene Dobrowolsky, //Hammerstones: A History of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in,// Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, 2003: 79.))