Editing Klondike, Yukon (section)

== History ==
{{See also|Klondike Gold Rush}}
{{See also|Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation}}
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The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people have continuously occupied the Klondike region for over 9000 years, and [[UNESCO]] has stated this was "fundamentally transformed during the colonial occupation of these lands."<ref name = "unesco"/> European traders began to arrive in the region in the mid 19th century, and in 1874, the first trading post in the Klondike ([[Fort Reliance]]) was established. Soon after, in 1876, the [[Indian Act]] was passed (without Indigenous negotiation), which restricted the ability of Indigenous Canadians to continue their cultural practices and live in their original lands.<ref name = "nominate"/> This act and the discovery of precious metals in the area led to a steady increase in the arrival of colonists during the 1880s, and in 1893, the first permanent non-Indigenous settlement was founded at [[Forty Mile, Yukon|Ch’ëdähdëk (Forty Mile)]], at the site of an ancient indigenous hunting spot.<ref name = "nominate"/> When gold was discovered nearby in 1896, several boomtowns were founded and the landscape around the Klondike transformed into an industrial hub.<ref name = "unesco"/> Nearly 30,000 people arrived in [[Dawson City]] over the next few years.<ref name = "nominate"/> In mid-1901 an expedition left California hoping to prove that the Klondike was the site of the Biblical [[Garden of Eden]]. It was sponsored ($50,000) by [[Morris Ketchum Jesup]] with an American naturalist (Norman Buxton) and two Russian scientists ([[Vladimir Bogoraz|Waldemar Bogoras]] and [[Vladimir Jochelson|Waldemar Jochelson]]).<ref>{{cite web|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DTN19010723.2.18?end_date=31-07-1901&items_per_page=10&query=Klondike+Jessup+Adam&snippet=true&start_date=01-07-1901&title=BA%2cDTN%2cHAST%2cHBH%2cHBT%2cHBTRIB%2cHBWT%2cWAIPM%2cDOM |title= Notes (page down)  |publisher=  Papers Past (NZ) |date= 1901}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HAST19010930.2.7?end_date=31-07-1902&items_per_page=10&query=Klondike+Jessup&snippet=true&start_date=01-07-1901&title=BA%2cDTN%2cHAST%2cHBH%2cHBT%2cHBTRIB%2cHBWT%2cWAIPM%2cDOM |title= Local and General (page down) |publisher=  Papers Past (NZ) |date= 1901}}</ref> The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in were forced to relocate downriver to an ancestral camp called [[Moosehide]], where it became the center of the Indigenous community until the 1950s.

After the Klondike Gold Rush ended near the turn of the 20th century, many of the boomtowns quickly became ghost towns, but Dawson City remained the capital of the Yukon until 1953 (when the capital was moved to [[Whitehorse]]).<ref name = "unesco"/>