Joseph Kyikavichik (1880 - 1972)

Reverend Joseph Kyikavichik was taught by Reverend Robert McDonald and became a catechist and then a lay minister in the Anglican Church.1) In 1918, Bishop Stringer asked Joseph to lead the services in Old Crow, and together with the missionaries who came and went, he carried on the work of the church for fifty years. He taught his children how to read Tukudh.2) Reverend Joseph Kyikavichik was ordained as an Anglican deacon in 1970 in Old Crow after serving fifty years as a catechist.3)

1)
Hannah Tolman, ed., Women of the Anglican Church in the Yukon. Whitehorse: The Old Log Church Museum, 2019: 18-19.
2)
“The Exham Years: The Church, Art, and Life in Old Crow, 1965-1969.” 2020 website: https://www.exhamexhibit.com/the-catechists.
3)
Manuscript “Summery of the Anglican Church in Yukon” by Archdeacon Allan Haldenby of Dawson in 1957 and updated by Lee Sax and Bishop Ronald Ferris in 1991.