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KÁA GOOX (Charlie, Dawson Charlie), Tagish; b. near Caribou Crossing (Carcross, Y.T.); d. 26 Dec. 1908 in the vicinity of Carcross.

Káa Goox was born to a Tagish mother, Kooyáy, and a Tlingit father, Tlawch’, probably during the 1860s when inter-tribal trade between the coastal Tlingit and the interior Athapaskan groups was at its height. A significant influence on his life was his maternal uncle, Skookum Jim [Keish*]. In Tagish society individuals trace their descent through the maternal line, and matrilineally linked family members claim membership in the same clan. At the time that Káa Goox was a child, a boy’s maternal uncle was probably the person most important to him because of their clan ties. Similarly, every Tagish man was responsible for the welfare of his sisters because they were members of his clan rather than of their father’s or husband’s. By the mid 1890s, two of Jim’s sisters had married white prospectors looking for gold on the Y Biography martin luther!