Yukon who is who

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Julia Joe (1907 - 2000)
	
Julia Joe was born Tagish Kwa’an at Marsh Lake to mother Susie //Saih kie//. Susie was the eldest daughter of Marsh Lake Jackie //Gunaatak’//, the chief of the Marsh Lake people in the late 1800s.  Julia lost her language after her mother died and she went to the Chooutla Residential School in Carcross for ten years. Julia left school in 1925 and was chosen to marry Johnny Joe in 1926. They had nine children and raised them at Marsh Lake. Julia named her first son Randall after Bishop Stringer's oldest boy.((Bob Charlie, “Johnny and Julia Joe.” //Yukon Indian News,// 13 December 1985 in //In Their Honor,// Ye Sa To Communications Society, Whitehorse, 1989: 30.))\\ 

Johnny and Julia Joe were interviewed in 1978 by Robert McCandlass who was researching material for his book //Yukon Wildlife: A Social History.// The interviews describe economic activities, the impact of the Alaska Highway, and the results of the Klondike gold rush.((Yukon Archives, “Oral History Centre. 2019 website: http://www.oralhistorycentre.ca/organizations/yukon-archives))