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High-top beaded slippers
with rabbit fur made by
renowned Vuntut Gwitchin
Elder Fanny Charlie (2003).
Government of Yukon
TOP 5 THINGS TO DO
Old Crow
Gwich’in language area
NORTH YUKON
REGION
Texture: Leslie Leong
1CROW MOUNTAIN ROAD
Take in spectacular scenery
and clean fresh air as you hike up
Crow Mountain Road. Go to the top
for an awe-inspiring experience.
2COMMUNITY LIFE Hear Elders’
stories, chat with residents,
participate in community activities
and experience first-hand how we
are adapting to an ever-changing
environment, while working to save
our nearly extinct Gwich’in language.
3PORCUPINE CARIBOU HERD
With a range about the size of
the United Kingdom, we can’t
guarantee a sighting of the
Porcupine Caribou Herd, one of
the last remaining healthy barren
ground herds in North America.
But you may see them or other
animals and birds on their amazing
migrations across our lands.
oldcrow.ca/caribou.htm
Elders Bella Greenland, the late Peter Josie
and Joseph Kaye join in good times at the
2016 Gwich’in Gathering in Old Crow.
Peter Mather
COMMUNITY VOICES
LANGUAGE IS
THE KEY TO ALL
For thousands of years we have
prospered here – trading, dancing
and singing through the challenges
of our Arctic existence. Juk gweendoo
(today), we are doing our best, not
just to preserve, but to bring back
our language and to evolve with it
into the future. Language is the key
to all. Eventually, it will be language
that allows the human race to
accomplish things we can’t even
dream of today. This will only
happen if we preserve our remaining
endangered Indigenous languages.
The more we learn
our language, the
more we begin to
see things in a
different light.
4DOG MUSHING Give it a go!
There is no better fun than dog
mushing in a place like Old Crow.
Brandon Kyikavichik
Interpreter at the
John Tizya Centre
VGFN
5JOHN TIZYA CENTRE
Explore our cultural
centre with its interpretive
exhibits, books, artifacts
and, best of all, our
great staff and their
entertaining stories.
The centre is our
foundation, the point
from which we will
preserve, promote
and evolve with
our cultural base.
Youth drying salmon at
a fish camp on the Porcupine River.
Peter Mather
We still share
the strongest
connection with
the caribou.
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