Jacob Njootli

Jacob Njootli moved to Rampart House in the summer of 1916 to establish an English day school. He was about twenty at the time and had attended the Hay River and Carcross residential schools. Anglican Isaac Bishop Stringer, responding to repeated requests from the Gwich’in and the Department of Indian Affairs, agreed to pay Njootli's salary. In 1917 Stringer found that Murdo Balaam, another graduate of the Hay River school, was holding classes at Old Crow without financial assistance.1)

1)
Colin Beairsto, “Making Camp: Rampart House on the Porcupine River.” Prepared for the Yukon Heritage Branch, March 1997: 193-194.