Tsiigehtchik

Tsiigehtchic stands at the mouth of the Tsiigehnjik, or Arctic Red River, where it joins the great Mackenzie. The Gwichya Gwich’in have travelled this river for generations, hunting in the mountains and returning downstream to fish. At spring breakup, families gathered by the water and made large moose-skin boats for the journey to the Mackenzie. Archaeological sites show that the confluence was used long before Alexander Mackenzie reached it in 1789.