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-Adeline Webber+Adeline Webber, Khayàdê
   
 Adeline Webber is of Inland Tlingit ancestry and is a member of the Teslin Tlingit Nation.((“Indicator of Yukon Gender Equality.” 2021 website: http://www.yukongenderequality.com/interviews.))  Adeline and her three sisters attended the Baptist mission school in Whitehorse. Their older brother died in 1942 while he was attending the Chooutla residential school in Carcross, and another brother was sent to a residential school in Alberta and did not return home until he was sixteen.((Chuck Tobin, “Yukoner is soon off to meet Pope Francis.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 25 March 2022.))  Adeline Webber is of Inland Tlingit ancestry and is a member of the Teslin Tlingit Nation.((“Indicator of Yukon Gender Equality.” 2021 website: http://www.yukongenderequality.com/interviews.))  Adeline and her three sisters attended the Baptist mission school in Whitehorse. Their older brother died in 1942 while he was attending the Chooutla residential school in Carcross, and another brother was sent to a residential school in Alberta and did not return home until he was sixteen.((Chuck Tobin, “Yukoner is soon off to meet Pope Francis.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 25 March 2022.)) 
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 Adeline is one of the original members of the Yukon Indian Women’s Association (now Yukon Aboriginal Women’s Council) and served as president in 1975/76. She sat on the National Native Association of Canada and Indian Rights for Indian Women boards. She advocated for women’s rights to status and was a mentor for those around her. In 2004, she was a founder of the Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle (WAWC). She also led a project to publish //Finding Our Faces,// a book of photographs from the Whitehorse Indian Mission School. For this and other work, Adeline received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Assembly of First Nations, Yukon Region.((“A Yukon That Leads.” //Deslin Neek,// Issue 60, December 2020: 20.)) Adeline is one of the original members of the Yukon Indian Women’s Association (now Yukon Aboriginal Women’s Council) and served as president in 1975/76. She sat on the National Native Association of Canada and Indian Rights for Indian Women boards. She advocated for women’s rights to status and was a mentor for those around her. In 2004, she was a founder of the Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle (WAWC). She also led a project to publish //Finding Our Faces,// a book of photographs from the Whitehorse Indian Mission School. For this and other work, Adeline received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Assembly of First Nations, Yukon Region.((“A Yukon That Leads.” //Deslin Neek,// Issue 60, December 2020: 20.))
   
-Adeline and husband Bill Webber were founding members of the Yukon Association of Non-Status Indians in 1972. In 1980, YANSI amalgamated with Yukon Native brotherhood to become the Council for Yukon Indians and many people have forgotten YANSI’s history of speaking for non-status people and its work in housing education, justice, and health. In 2022, the Webbers joined Shirley Adamson, Margaret Commodore, and Victor Mitander to form the WAWC ‘s Elders Advisory Committee overseeing a project funded by the Community Development Fund to document the significant work of the Association.((Heather LeDuc, “Remembering the Forgotten People.” //Whats Up Yukon,// 1 June 2022: 7-9.))+Adeline and husband Bill Webber were founding members of the Yukon Association of Non-Status Indians (YANSI) in 1972. In 1980, YANSI amalgamated with Yukon Native brotherhood to become the Council for Yukon Indians (CYI) and many people have forgotten YANSI’s history of speaking for non-status people and its work in housing education, justice, and health. In 2022, the Webbers joined Shirley Adamson, Margaret Commodore, and Victor Mitander to form the WAWC ‘s Elders Advisory Committee overseeing a project funded by the Community Development Fund to document the significant work of the Association.((Heather LeDuc, “Remembering the Forgotten People.” //Whats Up Yukon,// 1 June 2022: 7-9.))
   
 In 2021, Adeline became chair of the Chooutla Working Group with co-chair Judy Gingell. A working plan was prepared to reach out to First Nations and others who have histories, stories, information, and photos to shed light on those who did not return from the Yukon residential schools. The first two years of the project planed to focus on Chooutla Residential School and then the group would research other residential schools in the Yukon. Yukon residential schools operated at different times and were run by different groups, and not all of them received federal funding.((Lawrie Crawford, “Working group established for Chooutla Residential School.” Yukon News (Whitehorse), 12 November 2021.))  In 2021, Adeline became chair of the Chooutla Working Group with co-chair Judy Gingell. A working plan was prepared to reach out to First Nations and others who have histories, stories, information, and photos to shed light on those who did not return from the Yukon residential schools. The first two years of the project planed to focus on Chooutla Residential School and then the group would research other residential schools in the Yukon. Yukon residential schools operated at different times and were run by different groups, and not all of them received federal funding.((Lawrie Crawford, “Working group established for Chooutla Residential School.” Yukon News (Whitehorse), 12 November 2021.)) 
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