Jim Boss

Jim Boss (1871 – 17 January 1950) (also called Kashxoot, Kishwoot, meaning "pound the table with fist,"[1] and Hundealth[2]) was an entrepreneur and the chief of the Southern Tutchone Ta’an Kwäch’än for over 40 years.

His leadership allowed the First Nations from the southern region of the Yukon to make the transition from a traditional way of life to a Euro-Canadian economy.

[1] At the onset of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896, in an effort both to preserve his people's rights and to profit, he abandoned his previous profession to set up a roadhouse, with the help of his brother-in-law, Henry Broeren, near Horse Creek to service the sternwheeler traffic on Lake Laberge.

Jackson, to communicate with the Government of Canada requesting that they and the King, Edward VII, begin a treaty or land claims discussions with the Yukon First Nations.

[7] By 1915, among the numerous businesses he ran during his life, he also operated one of the Yukon's fifteen fox fur farms.

On 23 August 2008, minister John Baird and Chief Ruth Massie of the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council unveiled the plaque, placed at Helen's Fish Camp near Lake Laberge,[8] to commemorate Boss.