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-Charles Eikland (b. 1940)
+Charles Eikland //Ahmed// (b. 1940)
-Charles Eikland was born at Fry Pan Lake, about three miles from Tazamona Lake. There was only the Eiklands and Bill Blair’s family living there in log cabins in the 1940s. Charles’ parents trapped in the winter and his father, Peter Eikland, placer mined in the summer. They got their supplies from Dawson and Charles’ father went there about two times a year from Snag (about fifty miles away) to get goods like dried milk, dried eggs, tea, flour, and sugar. The families dried meat and fish. Sometimes in the summer they pulled up the moss and put fish on the permafrost to keep it fresh. The Eiklands moved to Snag in 1945, and Charles remembers the black American troops building the highway – he was three at the time. Most of the First Nation children from Snag were sent to mission school at Lower Post during that time. The Eikland family moved to Haines Junction in 1949, and the children went to public school there. The family moved to Beaver Creek in 1953 or ’54.((Alaska Highway Project Jukebox. Stacey Carkhuff’s interview with Charles Eikland at Destruction Bay on 10 November 2008. 2018 website: http://jukebox.uaf.edu/ak_highway/Eikland_Charlie/HTML/testimonybrowser.html))
+Charlie Eikland is Upper Tanana and a respected Elder of the White River First Nation. He is the son of Mary Eikland, Upper Tanana from Snag, and Peter Eikland, a Norwegian who landed in the Upper Beaver Creek area.((Mark Peter Douglas Eikland (1967 – 2017), Celebration of Life pamphlet.)) Charlie was born at Fry Pan Lake, about three miles from Tazamona Lake. There was only the Eiklands and Bill Blair’s family living there in log cabins in the 1940s.((Alaska Highway Project Jukebox. Stacey Carkhuff’s interview with Charles Eikland at Destruction Bay on 10 November 2008. 2018 website: http://jukebox.uaf.edu/ak_highway/Eikland_Charlie/HTML/testimonybrowser.html))
+Charles’ parents trapped in the winter and his father placer mined in the summer. They got their supplies from Dawson and Peter Eikland went there about two times a year from Snag (about fifty miles away) to get goods like dried milk, dried eggs, tea, flour, and sugar. The families dried meat and fish. Sometimes in the summer they pulled up the moss and put fish on the permafrost to keep it fresh.((Alaska Highway Project Jukebox. Stacey Carkhuff’s interview with Charles Eikland at Destruction Bay on 10 November 2008. 2018 website: http://jukebox.uaf.edu/ak_highway/Eikland_Charlie/HTML/testimonybrowser.html))
+The Eiklands moved to Snag in 1945, and Charles remembers the black American troops building the highway – he was three at the time. Most of the First Nation children from Snag were sent to mission school at Lower Post during that time. The Eikland family moved to Haines Junction in 1949, and the children went to public school there.((Alaska Highway Project Jukebox. Stacey Carkhuff’s interview with Charles Eikland at Destruction Bay on 10 November 2008. 2018 website: http://jukebox.uaf.edu/ak_highway/Eikland_Charlie/HTML/testimonybrowser.html)) Charles and his sister were Status as they were born before their parents were married. His siblings born after the wedding were Non Status. All of the children went to school in Haines Junction because Peter refused to have any of his children attend residential school.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 216-17.)) The family moved to Beaver Creek in 1953 or ’54.((Alaska Highway Project Jukebox. Stacey Carkhuff’s interview with Charles Eikland at Destruction Bay on 10 November 2008. 2018 website: http://jukebox.uaf.edu/ak_highway/Eikland_Charlie/HTML/testimonybrowser.html))
+Charles enfranchised to gain employment and then joined YANSI to fight for the rights of Non Status people. He served as president of the Destruction Bay Local which included Burwash. He was chief of Kluane First Nation for three years when Kluane and White River were joined. He acted as interim chief for White River at another time.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 216-17.))
+Charles started with the Yukon Electrical Company in Haines Junction in 1963 and moved on to take care of the generators at Destruction Bay before retiring in 1984. He then opened a welding and tire business in Destruction Bay.((YANSI Elders Circle, //It’s our Time to Tell Our Story.// Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, 2025: 216-17.))