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A 4 page overview of the years leading up to and following the Klondike Gold Rush. The author traces the various points of contact and contends that while the fur trade, whaling activities, and even a burgeoning salmon fishery led to more and more frequent contact between whites and indigenous inhabitant, that contact would be nothing in comparison to that which would result with the Gold Rush. Whole towns would spring up seemingly overnight as people flocked to the region. Whole cultures were decimated. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPnaGold.rtf
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would occur that would forever alter the culture and the lifeways of the indigenous peoples of the Yukon Territory. That event seemed innocuous enough yet it was the beginning
of a major historical period. Starting with one docking of a ship in Seattle, the Northwest would be thrown into a frenzy that is now remembered as the Klondike
Gold Rush. That ship was loaded with gold, gold that it had prospected in Alaska. The news would send thousands of whites scurrying into the Yukon hoping to
find similar fortunes. It was not only whites that were affected by the Klondike gold rush, however, it also wielded a tremendous impact on the indigenous people of the
territory. Peoples such as the Athabaskan, Haida, Aleut, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, and Nootka while in south-eastern Alaska the Tlingit, Chilkat, Gitksan, and even the Salish of Washington State would be forever
altered by the new peoples and lifeways that flooded into the region in search of gold. The indigenous peoples of this region had
not, of course, been completely isolated from whites prior to the Gold Rush. Indeed, they had had some interaction with the Russians, the Spanish, the British, and the U.S.
on previous occasions. Indeed, the country had been penetrated some three centuries previously with the arrival of Bartholome de Fonte who had sailed up from Mexico looking for the
Northwest Passage (QuestConnect, 2004). In 1728 even the Danes had made exploratory moves into the country with the trip of Vitus Bering (QuestConnect, 2004). The Russians were soon
to follow and they even established a settlement on Kodiak Island (QuestConnect, 2004). It was with this settlement, and the fur trade surrounding it, that the first real impact
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