Mary Netro, nee Joseph (b. 1917)
	
Mary Netro’s parents, Eva and Little Joseph, lived in Alaska before she was born. Little Joseph lost most of his family in an epidemic there and the couple moved to Old Crow where Mary was born. Her mother died when Mary was small, and she was adopted by John and Martha Charlie and raised in Johnson Creek Village.((“Mary Netro.” //Old Crow – Yukon: Home of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation: Elders.// 2019 website: http://www.oldcrow.ca/elders.htm)) 
They would arrive at Johnson Creek in September and stay there all winter with Peter Charlie and his family from Fort McPherson and another family. They would set a net as soon as they arrived. The men would hunt and trap and fish. Mary would dry meat and tan skins with her mother. They caught a lot of white fish all winter and dried them for dog food. The whole family would collect wood in the boat every day for the winter. After freeze-up, Peter and her dad would go to the trap line and be gone about a month. They trapped all winter – coming and going from home. Mary and her grandmother would trap at home. In the spring, they put in a boat go down to Old Crow.((Story told by Mary Netro for //1995 Calendar and Brief History of Our Elders.// Compiled by the students of Te’sek Gehtr’oonatun Zzeh Campus, Old Crow, Yukon.))  

John Nukon stayed at Whitestone Village with this family, and he came down after the ice went out. The three families would go to Old Crow together and stay for the summer. The men went up to Crow Flats to trap muskrat as well and then they would take their furs down to Fort Yukon with their own boat and get groceries for the winter.((Story told by Mary Netro for //1995 Calendar and Brief History of Our Elders.// Compiled by the students of Te’sek Gehtr’oonatun Zzeh Campus, Old Crow, Yukon.)) 

Mary married Rufus Netro in Fort Yukon and they had eight children.((“Mary Netro.” //Old Crow – Yukon: Home of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation: Elders.// 2019 website: http://www.oldcrow.ca/elders.htm)) After Mary got married, she didn’t go back to Fort Yukon. She and the children would go every spring to Crow Flats and stay there for a few months to trap muskrats. The men went a long way to trap. Just before Christmas they all come home with a lot of fur and meat.((Story told by Mary Netro for //1995 Calendar and Brief History of Our Elders.// Compiled by the students of Te’sek Gehtr’oonatun Zzeh Campus, Old Crow, Yukon.))