Jim Edward Sittichinli

Jim Sittichinli grew up at Fort McPherson to parents Edward and Annie Sittichinli. Jim and his wife raised their family at Aklavik.1) He came over to the Whitestone area in the upper Peel River basin in the bush to baptise a child in 1915.2) 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.3)

Jim Sittichini was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1960 and was in charge at the All Saints Cathedral in Inuvik.4)

1) , 4)
“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/
2)
“Oral History in the Porcupine-Peel Landscape.” Porcupine-Peel Landscape: Traditional Values Study. Old Crow: Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, April 1995: 10.
3)
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.