Chief Isaac's People of the River - Traditional Territory

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Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory

Source: H. Dobrowolsky, Hammerstones: A History of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in (Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, 2003). Map after C. Osgood with revisions by T. J. Hammer and Patricia Halladay.

Chief Isaac's Mining Claims

Between 1904 and 1919 Chief Isaac staked four placer mines. He may have filed these claims to protect his cabin and subsistence sites. These claims were located on Moosehide Creek near Moosehide Village, on Cary Creek (just below the mouth of the Fortymile River), on the South Fork of the Sixtymile, and on Pine Creek which flows into the Sixtymile.

Claim No.	Description	Date Recorded
40491	No. 15 below Discovery on Cary Creek.	26 Sep 1904
26443	Creek claim No. 27 above Discovery, on South Fork Sixty Mile River.	23 Dec 1911
27190	Creek Claim No. 16 below Discovery on Pine Creek.	01 Feb 1912
32354	Creek Claim No. 15 above Discovery Moosehide Creek.	06 Oct 1919

Click here for a copy of the original claim registrations.

The Han People Today "We are people of the river: we cannot fade away. The Yukon is our lifeline for subsistence and survival."
Source: William Silas, The Northland News, April 1988