Moosehide

{{Short description|Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in village in Yukon, Canada}}

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|1911|125

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|1951|60

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| source = Statistics Canada
{{cite book | url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/statcan/CS92-539-1961.pdf | title=1961 Census of Canada | series=Series 1.1: Historical, 1901–1961 | volume=I: Population | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | location=Ottawa | chapter=Table 6: Population by census subdivisions, 1901–1961 | date=March 8, 1963 | accessdate=January 30, 2022}}{{cite book | url= https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/statcan/CS98-1951M-7.pdf | title=Ninth Census of Canada, 1951 | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | volume=SP-7 (Population: Unincorporated villages and hamlets) | date=March 31, 1954 | accessdate=February 2, 2022}}

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Moosehide (Hän: Ëdhä Dädhëchan) is a traditional village of the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation in the Canadian territory of Yukon between about 1906 and the early 1960s.{{cite report |title = Tr’ondëk-Klondike World Heritage Site |publisher = United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization |date = December 2020 |url = https://whc.unesco.org/document/186497}} Located near a traditional salmon-fishing ground, Moosehide was first occupied about 9,000 years ago.{{cite journal |last1=MacNeish |first1=Richard S. |title=Investigations in Southwest Yukon: Archeological excavations, comparisons, and speculations |journal=Papers of the Robert Peabody Foundation for Archaeology |date=1964 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=201-488}} Starting in the mid-1800s, and accelerating the Klondike Gold Rush, European settles arrived in the area and began to settle in and around Dawson City. The Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in were forced to relocate, first just to the south of Dawson and in 1897 to Moosehide. The St. Barnabas Church was built by the Anglican Church of Canada in 1908. A cemetery with about 200 burials (the oldest from 1898) is located behind the church. Moosehide is also the site of the cabin of Chief Isaac, who was the leader of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in during the Klondike Gold Rush.{{cite web |author1=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |title=Tr'ondëk-Klondike |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1564/ |access-date=20 September 2023 |website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |language=en}}

At the time of the 1911 census, 'Moose Hide' was a village, with a recorded population of 125.{{cite book | url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/statcan/CS98-1911M-1.pdf | title=Fifth Census of Canada, 1911 | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | volume=Special Report on Area and Population | date=February 27, 1912 | accessdate=January 21, 2022}}

The Moosehide Village site (Jëjik Dhä Dënezhu Kek’it) became part of the Tr’ondëk-Klondike UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023, because of its depiction of the adaptions made by the indigenous people to European colonization and its historical and cultural importance for the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in.