Their Own Yukon: A Photographic History by Yukon Indian People

About this book

This book presents a photographic record of social, economic and cultural changes experienced by Indian people in one part of northern Canada--the Yukon Territory. The uniqueness of this album lies in the origins of the photos. Most of them were taken by Indian men and women who have kept them as records of daily life in the early decades of this century. They illustrate changes which have occurred since the coming of white men at the turn of the century - changes brought first by gold seekers, trappers and traders, and then by the development of commercial trapping, trading posts, riverboat transportation, woodcamps, church schools, and so on.