Sam Williams, Anda Ta’ (1908 – 1996)
	
Sam Williams was born in 1908 at Sekulman Lake to Nakanthat (Billy Williams) and Danjik Ma (Daisy Isaac). His sisters are the late Annie Nicholas and the late Jessie Jonathan. He was raised in Asheyi (Aishihik).((Doreen Williams, "Sam Williams Anda Ta'" in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College, 2007: 141-2.)) He was named for his mother’s brother, the late Sam Isaac.((//Dakeyi Teaching Guide: Southern Tutchone Place Names,// Yukon Native Language Centre, 1997.)) 
	
Williams and his wife [need her name] had a son Luke Williams and daughter Vera Williams plus other boys (deceased).((Doreen Williams, "Sam Williams Anda Ta'" in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College, 2007: 141-2.)) His wife died when the children were small, and Sam raised them with the help of his sister.((//Dakeyi Teaching Guide: Southern Tutchone Place Names,// Yukon Native Language Centre, 1997.)) 
	
Sam Williams guided for twenty-seven years and was mentioned in guiding books and outdoor magazines. He lived a traditional life hunting, fishing, guiding and trapping. He then worked for the Department of Transportation in Asheyi starting in 1958 and for ten years before his retirement.((Doreen Williams, "Sam Williams Anda Ta'" in //From First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College, 2007: 141-2.)) 
	
In 1989, Williams was the founding elder, and a regular guest, of the Athapaskan language classes offered for grade 11 and 12 students at the F. H. Collins Senior Secondary School in Whitehorse. He also assisted the Yukon Native Language Centre staff in documenting place names and land use in the Aishihik and Nisling River regions.((//Dakeyi Teaching Guide: Southern Tutchone Place Names,// Yukon Native Language Centre, 1997.))
	
The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Youth Centre is named for Sam Williams. He was a very religious person and taught others to respect elders, living things, and other people.((Doreen Williams, "Sam Williams Anda Ta'" in From //First We Met to Internet: Stories from Haines Junction's first Sixty-Five Years as a Settlement.// Yukon College, 2007: 141-2.))