Edith Josie CM (December 8, 1921 – January 31, 2010)[1] was a Canadian writer, best known as a longtime columnist for the Whitehorse Star.
[2] Her column, titled Here Are the News, concerned life in the small community of Old Crow, Yukon, and was syndicated to newspapers around the world.
[1]A member of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation,[3] Josie was born in Eagle, Alaska, and moved to Old Crow at age 16.
[2] She earned a living selling animal skins, which her father had taught her at an early age how to trap and prepare.
[4] She was the subject of a story, "Everybody Sure Glad," by Dora Jane Hamblin in Life magazine in 1965,[5] and served on the council of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation from 1968 to 1972.