Yukon who is who

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Margery “Marge” Jackson (nee Jim), //Chusrua and Ch'ashewalma//  (b. 1919)
	
Marge Jackson was of the Wolf (Agunda) clan and a fluent speaker of Southern Tutchone. She was the daughter of Maggie Jim //Mats'äsäná// and Little Jim. She was born near Dakwakadaq (Haines Junction) and grew up at Otter Lake (Canyon Lake).((Margaret Workman, ed. //Kwaday Kwandur: Traditional Southern Tutchone Stories.// Yukon Native Language Centre, 2000: 1.)) Her paternal grandparents died that year in the Spanish Flu epidemic. When she was five, Marge helped her blind grandmother travel to Champagne and Dalton Post. Her father, Little Jim, died when Marge was about ten and she was raised by her maternal grandmother Jenny John K’ukewaá. She was eight and had six surviving siblings when her mother married Big Jim Fred, and the family moved to Klukshu. When Marge and Peter Jackson married in Whitehorse, she already had her own dog, sled, and traps, and was able to make good money from hunting and trapping. Peter worked for George Chambers at Champagne.((Marge K. Jackson with assistance from Beth L. O'Leary. //My Country is Alive: A Southern Tutchone Life.// Haines Junction 2005: 1-8, 18-19, 30.)) Marge was twenty-five when they moved to Shadhala (Champagne). They trapped and hunted between Klukshu and Champagne until their six children were school age and then they moved to Haines Junction.((Margaret Workman, ed. //Kwaday Kwandur: Traditional Southern Tutchone Stories.// Yukon Native Language Centre, 2000: 1.))\\ 
	
Marge learned to make moccasins and sew beadwork and moosehide clothing at an early age. During the 1928 stampede to the Kluane country, Marge sold moose skin gloves to the miners, and later she sold moccasins during the construction of the Alaska Highway. In 2005 she was making skin dresses for dancers, weddings, and graduations.((Marge K. Jackson with assistance from Beth L. O'Leary. //My Country is Alive: A Southern Tutchone Life.// Haines Junction 2005: 1-8, 18-19, 30.))\\
	
Marge Jackson was an accomplished artist. Her moccasins and mukluks won awards all over Canada. Jackson’s beadwork and sewing were featured in an exhibition at the Yukon Archives and a lecture at the Skookum Jim Friendship Centre in October 2007. The lecture was co-presented by Marge Jackson and Dr. Beth O’Leary, a cultural anthropologist from New Mexico. They worked together over the thirty years to document Jackson’s life history and art. Marge Jackson spent her summers at Klukshu, telling stories to visitors and selling her work.((//Hansard,// 25 October 2007. Yukon Legislative Assembly, 2019 website: http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca/calendar/2007/045hansard.html))