"During the wartime, they segregated the Indians and Negroes. They were supposed to sit upstairs, there was just a little place up there to sit down in the movie. The restaurants were the same and even the schools. Carcross Mission School was for Indian children only and up in Dawson they had a school for half-breeds. They kept us separated. It was really hard because after those kids that went to Dawson City, they weren't really accepted into the white world or the Indian one too."

Many Yukon First Nations children became very ill with tuberculosis and were sent to the Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton. There, they were isolated, often spending years away from their homes and families trying to recover from this horrible disease.

Postcard of the Tutshi at Carcross, Yukon, early 1942. (Eric Irvine)