This story ran in The Seattle Times on January 7, 1996 By Sharon Boswell and Lorraine McConaghy Special to the Times Crowds jammed Seattle's docks, headed for the gold fields of the Yukon River and its tributaries -- the region of Alaska and Canada known to adventurers and residents alike as the Klondike. Backed by local newspapers and the Chamber of Commerce, Seattle became the West Coast ...

The area now known as the Yukon was home to people with a vast trading network long before the arrival of missionaries, fur traders and goldseekers.

The lives of the First Nations peoples of Alaska and the Yukon were changed forever by the steamroller of humanity hell-bent for the gold fields.