Tsiigehtchic Traditional Cache
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Pronounced SIC-A-CHIC Lock and lock container with FTF prize.
Winter friendly.
Tsiigehtchic is a community of less than 200 persons located at the
confluence of the Mackenzie River and the Arctic Red River.
Formerly called Arctic Red River, the community officially changed
its name to Tsiigehtchic (Mouth of Iron River) in 1994 to honour
it's traditional name. This location has a very long history as a
summer fish camp for the Gwichya Gwich'in ("people of the flat
lands") and was the site of many gatherings and trade (both
friendly and not so friendly) between the Gwichya Gwich'in, Slavey
and Inuvialuit. As long as anyone can remember, the Gwichya
Gwich'in traveled up the Arctic Red River into the mountains along
the Yukon NWT border, in late summer. There they lived and hunted
through the winter. When the river opened in spring, they returned
to their fishing grounds at Tsiigehtchic and other places along the
Mackenzie River for the summer. Missionaries established a Roman
Catholic church in the area in 1868, however some families
continued to winter in the mountains until the 1960s. Construction
of the Dempster Highway in the 1970s brought wage employment, and
some community members operate the ferry which carries summer
traffic across the Mackenzie and the Arctic Red Rivers. .
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Unatvat va n ovepu gerr.
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