Jim Edward Sittichinli
	
Jim Sittichinli was the son of Annie and Rev. Edward Sittichinli and he grew up in Fort McPherson.((“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/)) In 1915, Jim Sittichinli came over to the Whitestone area, in the upper Peel River basin in the bush, to baptise a child.(("Oral History in the Porcupine-Peel Landscape." Porcupine-Peel Landscape: Traditional Values Study.  Old Crow: Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, April 1995: 10.))

After Edward Sittichinli died in 1928, Jim and his mother made their living, fishing and trapping, around Aklavik.((Lee Sax and Effie Linklater, //Gikhyi: One Who Speaks The Word of God.// Diocese of Yukon, November 1990: 74-75.)) 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/)) 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/))