Haines Junction, Yukon

Haines Junction, in the language of the local Indians Dakwakada, is a place in the Yukon Territory, which had 2006 589 inhabitants.

It is located in the southwest of the Yukon, at the junction of the Alaska Highway and Haines Highway, which gave the place its name. It is the administrative center for the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations. Of the members of this First Nation is located approximately 240 in place.

History

Different groups of the Southern Tutchone had to Haines Junction fishing grounds and summer camps. They described the area as Dakwakada, which means " high camp." This is due to that the Tutchone wooden storage built on stands to create food stocks. Today's Dakwada Building recalls.

At the same time Tutchone controlled trade up to three passports, which allowed access to the Pacific coast. This was particularly true for the nearby Chilkoot Pass, the more accurate the Chilkat and Chilkoot who controlled the passes until the Klondike Gold Rush played a central role in trade with the Tlingit. In the area around the later Haines Junction, groups met on the way from Klukshu and Kloo Lake to Hutchison, Champagne and Mendenhall.

With the gold rush, living conditions changed fundamentally, and the population plummeted, as in 1862 when the Tlingit. First, the smallpox played an important role later measles and other diseases against which the Indians had almost no resistance.

When in 1904 gold was discovered at Kluane Lake, the Kluane Wagon Road, a road that the Dezadeash River and the traditional trade paths of the Champagne and Aishihik followed was about. In the 30 years this route was no longer gold prospectors, but was sailed by a postal service, the Whitehorse Kluane Stage Line, which led George Chambers.

Since the 60s, lives in the space Haines Junction Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, the, the former being named after the Champagne Dezadeash River, the latter. According Aishihik at the headwaters of the Alsek River They were resettled here from Champagne Landing and Aishihik. They are around 800 recognized and further than 300 unrecognized tribesmen one of the largest First Nations in the Yukon.

The present town Haines Junction was established since 1942 with the construction of the Alaska Highway and served as a supply depot for up to 20,000 road workers at the branch to the Haines Road. From 1943 arose, often along ancient trade routes, in addition, the Haines Highway, which connected the Alaska Highway to the Alaskan Haines over the Chilkat Pass. During the construction of the Alaska Highway were heavily based on this street.

With the departure of the Americans in 1946 Canadian military took over the town and the construction camp, and from here the route was entertained. The Alaska Highway was slightly shifted, the old route is now known as Marshall Creek Road. The remaining construction workers brought in part by their families, new ones were added, as Haines Junction in 1972 central site for access to Kluane National Park. 1956 was a building for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which Canadian police has been stationed for the first time.

On the Alaska Highway was operating the Anglican Sunday School Caravan, until it was replaced by a church. Eva Hasell donated the land to and Reverend Watson and Peter Tizya, a lay tendered from Old Crow, built the house 1956. 1987 was a new construction.

The competitors in the Yukon, the Catholic missionaries of the Oblate Order, as Father Morisset, came partly with the U.S. Army. Morisset and Father Van Rouej built the Catholic Church Our Lady of the Way 1955. Purpose they took over the remains of a building of the Air Force. Haines Junction in 1983 the headquarters of the North Alaska Highway missions.

To protect wild stocks from the many hunters who came to the region with the road workers, the Kluane Game Sanctuary was set up from the 1972, the 22,015 km ² Kluane National Park emerged (pronounced Klu -ah- nii, derived from Lu ' at Munich, a Tutchone - word meaning " lake with many fish " means ). The park management was based in Haines Junction, and the place so the main access point to the National Park. Also created in 1980 a visitor center and museum. Champagne and Aishihik First Nations The Management since 1995 with the park, which also applies to the Tatshenshini - Alsek Provincial south park. Go to the part return to their traditional hunting and fishing activities in accordance to secure their livelihood, which was forbidden them around for half a century.

1998 saw after the tribal office at the Marshall Creek Road had become too small, the CAFN Administrative Building, the administration building of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations.

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