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    What was life like at Kâachik ?

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Kâachik What was life like at Kâachik ?

A cabin/cache at Kâachik in the summer of 2000

Kâachik is a habitation and winter village site on the upper Porcupine River ( Ch’oodèenjik ). Upper Ch’oodèenjik is the traditional lands of the Dagoo Gwich’in, now dispersed and living primarily among the Vuntut and Teetl’it Gwich’in [of Old Crow and Fort McPherson respectively]. The high country of the upper Porcupine is the home to moose, fine fur-bearers, beaver, caribou on their…

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  • 1. Alfred Charlie describes Dagoo life at Kâachik by Alfred Charlie
  • Andrew Tizya 2. Andrew Tizya tells of hunting at Kâachik and a New Year’s celebration by Andrew Tizya
  • Charlie Peter Charlie 3. Charlie Peter Charlie and Dagoo at Kâachik by Charlie Peter Charlie
  • 4. Fanny Charlie’s story of a time when the Fort McPherson people came to Kâachik by Fanny [Tizya] Charlie
  • John Joe Kyikavichik 5. John Joe Kyikavichik’s trip to the headwaters of Ch’oodèenjik in the 1930s by John Joe Kyikavichik
  • 6. Lazarus Charlie tells of travel to Kâachik as a boy by Lazarus Charlie
  • 7. Mary Netro’s story of living at Kâachik as a child by Mary Netro
  • Aerial view of Kâachik
  • Florence Netro and Elder Mary Netro at Kâachik in 2000
  • A cabin/cache at Kâachik in the summer of 2000
  • Kâachik looking down at cabin ruins
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  • Lynx - Niinjii (colouring picture)
  • Moose - Dinjik (colouring picture)
  • Peter Charlie and family going to Kâachik (colouring picture)
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