Jimmy Copper Joe

Jimmy Copper Joe was the son of Copper George Joe and his Ta'an wife.1) Jimmy Joe spent many years working as a guide for a big game outfitter. He passed through Aishihik on his way to guide in the Nisling area. He met and married Jenny Isaac, the daughter of Chief Albert Isaac and Elsie Johnson Isaac, in Aishihik. Jimmy and Jenny moved to Burwash Landing where they had four children, Art, Louise, Benson, and Bonnie.2) Jimmy learned English by himself and could read complicated written material. He bought the first truck to operate on the Alaska Highway tote-road from Kluane to Whitehorse and put the teamsters out of business.3)

1)
Kluane First Nation, Kluane Lake Country People Speak Strong, Figure 1 Publishing Inc., 2023: 47-48.
2)
Margaret Workman, ed. Kwaday Kwandur: Traditional Southern Tutchone Stories. Yukon Native Language Centre, 2000: 63.
3)
Dr C.H.D. Clarke, “Biological Reconnaissance of the Alaska Military Highway with Particular Reference to the Yukon Territory and the Proposed National Park Therein.” January 1944 (ICC Exhibit 1, p. 110) in “Kluane First Nation, Kluane National Park and Kluane Game Sanctuary Inquiry.” 2007: 11.