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The Editors Generously Supplied This PDF of My Kohklux YUKON UNIVERSITY YUKON ARCTIC ULTRA MOUNTAINS MEET SKY Why “U” could make a difference Finding strength in vulnerability Appreciating Dakwäkäda YUKONNORTH of ORDINARY® things you didn't know about 11RAVENS OUR TRAILS BRING US TOGETHER +The gifts of the Kohklux maps Vol. 14 Issue 1 Spring 2020 www.NorthofOrdinary.com CAN. $6.95 l U.S. $4.95 The Official Inflight Magazine of PM41599072 Display until May 1, 2020 YUKON North of Ordinary l SPRING 2020 1 CARTOGRAPHIC CONVERGENCES The Southern Yukon's first map continues to lead the way By Corinna Cook Image: G4370 1852.K61, Map Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley [small Kohklux map] Deep in southeast Alaska’s Chilkat Valley, three people bend over the blank back of a coastal chart—discussing, drawing, shading, remembering. They are Chilkat headman Kaa- laxch’ (Kohklux) and his wives. For three days, they pool their memories, experiences, and knowledge of the land that stretches from Klukwan to Fort Selkirk, a one-way journey Dof about 30 days back then. They are mapping the way inland for a newcomer, U.S. government surveyor George Davidson. Davidson and his party are here to observe a solar eclipse calculated to reach totality at Klukwan, and Kaalaxch’ has guided them here into his homeland. Now, he and his wives draw each day of the month-long journey. They do so from memory. It is August 1869. To the south, the Takinsha Mountains and Chilkat Range rise from sea to sky. Below them lies Lynn Canal, a tempestu- ous but rich Pacific fjord. Up the valley, the trio draw pencils across the page and alongside them flow the frigid, milky Above: Kaalaxch’ first sketched the route for Davidson on a note- waters of the Chilkat River. Hooligans, or candlefish, season- book-sized sheet of paper and that became the small Kohklux map. ally swell its current. To the north, the sheer rock faces and year-round snowfields of the Takshanuk Mountains stand and paper are new tools for them, the precision and accuracy hard against the sky. of their hand-drawn map will stun local experts, GIS map- A MOST IMPRESSIVE ARCHIVE Looking back from the present day, former territorial archi- pers, and geographers over a century later. This past autumn, 150 years after the maps’ vist Linda Johnson imagines arriving as a newcomer into the “We have thousands of mental pictures gathered into one drawing, First Nations Yukon people, Chilkat Tlingits’ homeland. “If you were George Davidson place,” says Tom Buzzell, Champagne and Aishihik First Alaska Natives, U.S and Canadian schol- and others coming up the Chilkat [River Valley] for the first Nations citizen and First Nations Liaison Officer for Kluane ars, technical professionals, and artists time, all you see is a wall of mountains,” she reflects. “The National Park and Reserve. “It’s a download of what was came together in Haines Junction for a route goes through that barrier in a very precise way.” going on in their minds that day.” potlatch, and they gathered again the fol- Across the page, Kaalaxch’ and his wives pencil everything The map Kaalaxch and his wives drew on the reverse of lowing weekend for a conference in White- from distinctive mountain profiles, riverways and lakes, and a coastal chart is now known as the “large Kohklux map.” horse to commemorate the drawing of the meeting places with inland people. Later, Davidson will There also exists a “small Kohklux map,” for Kaalaxch’ first map, pondering the ongoing cross-cul- listen attentively to his hosts and learn place names along sketched the route for Davidson on a notebook-sized sheet tural exchanges it represents. Most impor- the route. Ultimately, he will transcribe over 100 such names of paper but needed more room to include sufficient detail. Collins Cass Illustration: tantly, they came together to discover old onto the map in multiple Indigenous languages including Today, the Kohklux maps reside in the Bancroft Library connections and create new ones. Łingit, Tagish, Southern Tutchone, and Northern Tutchone. archives, in Berkeley, California. Aptly bearing the name Our Trails Bring Kaalaxch’ and his wives not only know the land’s features, These extraordinary documents are the earliest known Us Together, the conference included cul- their names in all the languages spoken across the route, and maps of southern Yukon. They are also the first known maps tural performances, panels and talks, slide- how to find safe passage over the 1,000-metre mountain pass, committed to paper by Indigenous people in the Alaska-Yu- shows, storytelling, an art installation, and they also own the trail as clan property. And although pencil kon region. 50 SPRING 2020 l YUKON North of Ordinary YUKON North of Ordinary l SPRING 2020 51 Top left: U.S. government surveyor George Davidson, ample attention to audience dialogue. On ca. 1870s. Top right: The Chilkat Range reaches up- wards of more than 1,800 metres (6,000 feet) and the first day of the conference, Klukwan, feeds myriad of valleys and hanging glaciers. Alaska, community members Lani Hotch, Map: The map George Davidson created for an article Jack Hotch, and Marsha Hotch performed he later wrote. Davidson credited Kohklux's 1869 man- in full regalia, filling Whitehorse’s Kwan- uscript map, but also incorporated information from lin Dün Cultural Centre with drumbeats, Frederick Schwatka, George Dawson, WIlliam Ogilvie, Edward Glave, and others. voice, and dance. Between songs, Lani, a Klukwan Elder, curator, and cultural-ed- ucation specialist at the Jilkaat Kwaan Kaalaxch’s life was spent contending with Heritage Center, set the tone of the gath- A SYMBOL OF PEACE, COOPERATION, AND EXCHANGE powerful and volatile outside forces, cul- ering with this statement: “We’re all here In contrast with such enduring continuities, dramatic changes of settler-colonial tivating, refining, and fighting to conduct together for a few days, and we need to contact also mark the region’s history. European and American explorers sailed into trade on his people’s terms, and navigating prepare our hearts for what’s to come.” the region in the mid-1700s. By the 1800s, Russia had claimed Alaska and started international power struggles in a local con- Later in the conference, several First exploiting its fur resources, a large-scale economic project which entailed a degree of text of tumultuous cross-cultural politics. Nations leaders emphasized an important business cooperation—and violent conflict—with coastal Tlingits. With the 1867 sale of Alaska to the U.S., point about the maps’ purpose. “These Around the same time, British fur traders expanded through North America, ulti- Kaalaxch’ suddenly had to create new rela- maps weren’t for us,” said Steve Smith, mately tapping into the interior Yukon fur trade with the establishment of a Hudson’s tionships with outside powers, when the Chief of the Champagne and Aishihik Bay Company post at Fort Selkirk. This did not sit well with the Chilkat Tlingit, who Russians left and the Americans arrived. First Nations. “These maps are for those of enjoyed a total trade monopoly on southern and central Yukon. “It was a pivotal moment,” says Johnson you who would get lost.” The historically recorded details of Kaalaxch’s life begin here. In 1852, he and his of the era in which Kaalaxch’ and David- Champagne and Aishihik First Nations father, Skeetl’aka, led a raid on the post at Fort Selkirk. No one was injured. Yet the son met one another, traveled together, and Elder Ron Chambers raised a similar point attack drove the Hudson’s Bay Company out of the Yukon and re-established the formed their relationship. Significantly, in his presentation. “They were people who Chilkat as the sole gatekeepers to trade in the interior. the creation and gifting of the Kohklux knew how to find their way up here,” said map coincided with a period in which the Chambers. “They didn’t need a map. Their British, Canadian, and American policies Image: G4370 1852.K6, Map Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley [large Kohklux map] “THEY WERE PEOPLE WHO KNEW HOW TO language was their map. Davidson came toward Indigenous people centered on and he needed a map. They were able to FIND THEIR WAY UP HERE. THEY DIDN’T NEED aggressive assimilation tactics designed make one for him.” A MAP. THEIR LANGUAGE WAS THEIR MAP.” and executed with the explicit intent to Reflecting on these sentiments after the exterminate Indigenous North America. conference, Johnson suggested we temper And while the U.S. had recently abolished “our excitement and awe that we have for slavery (in 1865), it still denied Indigenous these maps with some of the reality that people virtually all citizenship rights. Kaa- Tlingit ancestors had all that information laxch’ thus welcomed Davidson into his in their heads and carried it around with Chilkat homeland at a delicate time, when them everywhere they went.” The physical the stakes of cross-cultural relationships maps are, of course, an extremely valuable were high and Indigenous-colonial negoti- resource for the Indigenous descendants ations occurred on fragile ground. of people who traded in the region, as well Peace—at any time and between any as for today’s historians, ethnographers, people— is a precious thing. The Kohklux and linguists. Yet, as powerful as the doc- maps embody cooperation and exchange. uments are, Smith’s and Chamber’s point M They are a symbol of longstanding rela- is essential. “That is the more impressive tionships between diverse Indigenous archive,” Johnson reiterated. “What people groups of the Alaska-Yukon region and carried in their minds.” a reminder there was once, deep in the Chilkat Valley, a profound moment of Above: Large Kohklux map.
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