I’m walking down the short Discovery Claim Trail on the Klondike Experience’s City and Goldfields Tour 22 years after these four silhouettes were erected and 126 years after the start of the world’s most famous gold rush. Two more steel silhouettes by Bonanza Creek show the prospectors that arrived in the 1890s/Jennifer Bain Fun as they might be to take selfies with, they’re meant to represent the newcomers and settlers who arrived and deeply impacted the land and lives of the First Nations people. Three more silhouettes along the trail at Discovery Claim National Historic Site show prospectors with gold pans and wide felt hats. Parks Canada, with help from the Yukon government, created this silhouette when it started to shift its perspective on the discovery story back in 2010. It was called Rabbit Creek until gold was found, but to the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in who hunted caribou and small game in the area it was Ch’ëchozhù Ndëk - “a thin layer of moose fat” in the Hän language. What’s important is that this long-haired Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in man with the bow and arrow is here to convey that the gold rush didn’t happen in an empty wilderness but in the place that he and his ancestors have called home for thousands of years.īonanza Creek here near Dawson City is part of the traditional territories of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, the people who live at the mouth of the Tr’ondëk (Klondike) River. He’s not real, of course - just a life-size, sheet metal silhouette that has weathered nicely and blended in with the foliage. There he stands in the woods as you start walking down the Discovery Claim Trail to the creek where Skookum Jim Mason, Káa Goox (Dawson Charlie), Shaaw Tláa (Kate Carmack) and George Carmack discovered gold in the Yukon in August 1896 and sparked the Klondike Gold Rush. This weathered sheet metal silhouette along the Discovery Claim Trail by Bonanza Creek speaks to the Indigenous presence in the Yukon before the Klondike Gold Rush/Jennifer Bain Oil Trains Pose A Significant Threat To National Parks.The Care And Keeping Of History Within The National Park System.Wastewater And Sewer Facilities Failing In National Parks.Private Philanthropy Fills The Gaps Of Deferred Maintenance.National Park Roads And Bridges Impacted By Lack Of Maintenance.NPS Is Running $670 Million Behind On Caring For Maintained Landscapes.Mixing Energy Development And National Parks.Maintenance Backlog Impacts Historic Structures In National Parks.Lack Of Dollars Crippling National Park Facilities For Staff And Visitors.Invasive Species A Plague On the National Park System.Groups Continually At Work To Acquire Private Lands Key To National Parks.Backlog Of Maintenance Needs Creates Risks In National Parks.Tackling The Maintenance Backlog In The Park System. ![]() Coping With 21st Century Wildfires In The Parks.Mixing Oil And Water At Big Cypress National Preserve.Not Enough Water And Too Many Invasives At Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.Colorado River Series-Canyonlands National Park.Special Reports Toggle submenu for Special Reports.Understanding Climate Change Impacts On National Parks.Get the Essential RVing Guide To The National Parks.
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