Jim Edward Sittichinli
	
Jim Sittichinli grew up at Fort McPherson to parents Edward and Annie Sittichinli. Jim and his wife raised their family at Aklavik.((“Jim Edward Sittichinli, storyteller.” //Gwadal’ Zheii: Belonging to the Land,// Canadian Museum of History, 2019 website:  https://www.historymuseum.ca/Gwich’in/storytellers/jim-edward-sittichinli/)) He came over to the Whitestone area in the upper Peel River basin in the bush to baptise a child in 1915.(("Oral History in the Porcupine-Peel Landscape." Porcupine-Peel Landscape: Traditional Values Study.  Old Crow: Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, April 1995: 10.)) John Joe Kyikavichik was told by his father that Jim Edward used to travel from Aklavik to LaPierre House when the Gwich’in people were there drying meat.((Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation & Shirleen Smith, //People of the Lakes: Stories of Our Van Tat Gwich’in Elders.// University of Alberta Press, 2009: 197.)) 

Jim Sittichini was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1960 and was in charge at the All Saints Cathedral in Inuvik.((“Jim Edward Sittichinli, storyteller.” //Gwadal’ Zheii: Belonging to the Land,// Canadian Museum of History, 2019 website:  https://www.historymuseum.ca/Gwich’in/storytellers/jim-edward-sittichinli/))