Angela Sidney, Ch’óonehte’ Má (Tagish) and Stóow (Tlingit) (1902 – 1991)
	
Angela Sidney was a Deisheetaan (Crow) woman of Tagish and Tlingit ancestry, born near Carcross. Her mother Maria’s names were La.oos Tláa (Tagish) and Kaax’anshée (Tlingit). She was Inland Tlingit, descended from the coastal Tlingit of Angoon, Alaska. He father, Tagish John, was called Haandeyéil  in Tagish and K’aajinéek in Tlingit.((//Kwanlin Dün: Our Story in Our Words.// Kwanlin Dün First Nation, 2020: 26.))
	
During the goldrush, Angela's mother lived in Dyea and had problems with her eyes due to an infection from measles. She lost five of her children while living in Dyea. Both of Angela’s parents packed loads over the Chilkoot Pass for the stampeders and got fifty cents per load. Her mother's mother looked after Maria’s children while she was packing. She would hike from Dyea to Lindeman and back in one day to be with her children at night. The women would carry fifty lbs. of dry goods and the men carried more.((Helene Dobrowolsky interviewed Ida Calmegane in 1991 for the Alaska Highway Interpretive Milepost Project. Heritage Branch files 4057-5-8 II.))
Angela Sidney's family lived in Whisky Flats, Whitehorse intermittently in 1914-15 when she was a girl. Her family were trapping foxes in the Whitehorse area.((Helene Dobrowolsky & Rob Ingram, //Edge of the River, Heart of the City.// Whitehorse: Lost Moose Publishing, 1994: 25.))
	
Mrs. Sidney worked as a midwife in Carcross during the Alaska Highway construction. Her daughter, Ida Calmegane, was at home with her youngest sister. They went to the mission school. During the epidemics of sickness in the community, Mrs. Sidney was out every night sitting with someone sick. Ida’s sister died during one epidemic.((Allison Reid, Ida Calmegane remembers Carcross: Highway brought romance, epidemics." The Optimist (Whitehorse), June 1992.))
	
Angela Sidney had a lifelong interest in passing on her cultural information.((Julie Cruikshank, //The Social Life of Stories.// Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998: 25.)) Angela was one of the last speakers of the Tagish language, and was also fluent in Tlingit, a language from an unrelated language family. Mrs. Sidney became a member of the Order of Canada in 1986 in recognition of her contribution to northern linguistic and ethnographic studies, and to the preservation of First Nation cultural heritage.((“Angela Sidney, C.M.” Yukon Archives, //Women of History,// 2019 website: http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/archives/wc/outstanding/outstanding3.htm)) 

Angela Sidney was the recipient of a Yukon Historical and Museums Association 1986 Heritage Award. She was a fluent speaker of Tagish and she made sure that her language was recorded. She shared her knowledge at culture camps, conferences, and festivals. She travelled when asked, including the 1986 Toronto Storytelling Festival, a journey that inspired the Yukon's International Storytelling Festival. She opened the inaugural festival in 1987 and performed every year including 1991, a month before her death. She supported the Carcross Dancers and appeared regularly at Native Folklore Night where she outlasted the rest of the drummers. She was rigorous in teaching the Tagish language and her stories had Crow making the world in front of your eyes.((Ann Tayler, "’Become a World’: A Tribute to Angela Sidney." Whitehorse: The Northern research Institute, Yukon College, 1994.))

Angela Sidney was the author of many publications including:
- Place Names of the Tagish Region, Southern Yukon. Whitehorse: Yukon Native Languages Project, 1980; 
- Tagish Tlaagú/Tagish Stories. Recorded by Julie Cruikshank. Whitehorse: Council for Yukon Indians and Government of Yukon, 1982; 
- Haa Shagóon/Our Family History. Comp. Julie Cruikshank. Whitehorse: Yukon Native Languages Project, 1983; 
- "The Story of Kaax'axhgook." //Northern Review,// 2, 1988: 9-16;  
- with Kitty Smith and Rachael Dawson, //My Stories Are My Wealth.// Recorded by Julie Cruikshank. Whitehorse: Council for Yukon Indians, 1977.