Yukon who is who

Charley Stevens

Charley Stevens was born near Fort Selkirk. He originally spoke a dialect of Northern Tutchone but switched to Southern Tutchone as he has long travelled and lived with his wife’s people. Charley and his wife were the last people to leave Aishihik. They had spent the winter of 1967 absolutely alone in the isolated village, about eighty miles from the Alaska Highway. Supplies were flown in by the Indian Agent, but they were forced to come out to the Highway in the summer. Charley was badly crippled and nearly blind, and he had to rely on his two brothers-in-law in the last years when the three couples formed the nucleus of Aishihik. Charley had been a first-rate hunter and remained an animated storyteller.¹⁾

The community from Aishihik resettled on the Alaska Highway at Canyon, where the highway crosses the Aishihik River.