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Eliza Farr (b. 1920)
	
Eliza Farr was Northern Tutchone and was born at Ladue Creek near Mayo to parents Isabel and Fred Lightning. Her father was a trapper, and the family moved around a lot when Eliza was growing up. They travelled into the NWT and Eliza was baptized in Fort Good Hope. Her mother died when she was young, and Eliza did not go to school but stayed to help her father and brother [Lonnie Johnny] with the trapline. The family trapped in the winter and at other times of the year they hunted and fished, dried meat and fish, tanned skins, and made repairs to equipment. Trips to town were rare and were made to pick up staples like flour, sugar, and tea. Eliza remembers her father stick gambling and playing another game called "throwing in the stick" using a post and a throwing stick. Bets were made on how many sticks it would take to knock down the post. The women would talk together, and the children learned new games like basketball. Eliza married for the first time when she was sixteen. Her husband died, and she lived in the bush alone, hunting, fishing, and trapping by herself. Later she moved to Keno and lived there for several years before she met Weldon Farr. They lived in Dawson and raised a large family. Most of the children and grandchildren stayed in the Dawson area. Eliza had a house in town but remembered and practiced many traditional crafts.((Dorothy Roberts and Kathy Kosuta, "Eliza Farr.” //In Their Honor,// Whitehorse: Ye Sa To Communications Society, 1989: 26-28.))