Choutla School boy scouts, 1933. (Heather Jones collection)

"In those days, there was a lot of prejudice in our communities, there was a lot between the native people and the Caucasians. And that has come a long ways too. It isn't how it used to be. The native person was not allowed to go to public school. They had the mission schools, and even going to the movie, there was an invisible line there where the native people had to go to a certain part of the theatre, which was way up close and looking up. Some of our people couldn't go to the public dances."

The Tagish and Inland Tlingit peoples, who had made their homes and way of life here for thousands of years, clearly did not have the same kind of options that other people did.