Keish
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Keish ( – July 11, 1916), also known as James Mason and by the nickname Skookum Jim Mason, was a member of the Tagish First Nation in what became the Yukon Territory of Canada. He was born near Bennett Lake, on what is now the Yukon–British Columbia border. He lived in Caribou Crossing, now Carcross, Yukon.
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- Reformed theology
- John Calvin and reformed protestantism
- Do This in Remembrance of Me
- TandT Clark Handbook of Sacraments and Sacramentality
- James : Belief
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- UltraSPARC-III: a 3rd generation 64 b SPARC microprocessor
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- Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Protestant Sacramental Theology
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- Affirmations and Complications About the Uses of Sexual Media Over Time from a Religious Perspective
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- Reformed Theology
· 2020 · cited 1x
- ON THE USE OF ISOTOPE MASS SPECTROMETRY IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF ARTISTS’ PIGMENTS
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- Keish
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- Keish in 1898
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- near Bennett Lake, Yukon
- Person.death_place
- Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
- Person.other_names
- James Mason; Skookum Jim Mason
- Person.known_for
- Discovery Claim that led to the Klondike Gold Rush
- Person.spouse
- Daakuxda.éit (Mary)
- Person.children
- Saayna.aat (Daisy)
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- Keish
- date of birth
- 1855-01-01
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- 1916-07-11
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- James Mason
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- Skookum Jim Mason
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Keish ( – July 11, 1916), also known as James Mason and by the nickname Skookum Jim Mason, was a member of the Tagish First Nation in what became the Yukon Territory of Canada. He was born near Bennett Lake, on what is now the Yukon–British Columbia border. He lived in Caribou Crossing, now Carcross, Yukon.
== Childhood == Keish was born around 1855 near Lake Bennett into the Daḵl'aweidi clan of Tagish. His mother, Gus'duteen, was from Tahltan country around Telegraph Creek while his father was Kaachgaawáa, chief of the Tagish Deisheetaan. His family was involved in trade between the coastal Tlingit and the inland Tagish. The family had two sons and six daughters who reached adulthood. The name Keish is a Tagish word meaning "wolf".