George Mitchell Henry, Yaana Goot Yeil (1956 – 2021) George Henry was born in Whitehorse to George and Pansy Henry, nee Smith and was a member of the Teslin Tlingit Council Kookhittaan Clan. He attended the Brooks Brook highway-workers school and the Lower Post residential school, and then graduated from F.H. Collins in Whitehorse. He studied broadcasting at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and then transferred to Ryerson Polytechnical University in Toronto where he completed his Batchelor of Applied Arts. In the Yukon, he helped to build the Northern Native Broadcasting and participated in the start-up of CHON-FM, NEEDAA-Your Eye on the Yukon, and Television Northern Canada. George Henry was the first Indigenous vice president of Yukon College before he moved to Vancouver to pursue a law degree at the University of Victoria. He was called to the bar in British Columbia. He was a sports fan and music lover, but his greatest love was his wife of forty-one years, Jan Staples.((“George Mitchell Henry.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 14 July 2021.))