2. Moved out of bush to Teslin.
3. Life in the area known as 12-mile.
4. The Alaska Highway was built for defence, ending the Teslin Tlingit people’s way of life.
5. Tlingit Nation arrived in Yukon.
6. The Tlingit controlled Yukon trading, but it eventually stopped being a reliable source of income.
7. Support from family is very apparent among native people.
8. Travelling missionaries forced native people to read the Bible.
9. Social workers took native children to white families, resulting in traumatic consequences.
10. Native children sent to residential schools were abused and taught that their culture was evil.
11. Moved to the big town of Whitehorse.
12. School in Whitehorse was frightening since Geddes was yelled at by a white teacher and wet her pants.
13. The white children bullied the native children and thought of them as stupid.
14. Moved to Ottawa with a man and realized she was smart enough to attend university.
15. Applied to university and graduated five years later with a bachelor of arts in English and philosophy.
16. Asked to direct her second film, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief, a few years later while studying at McGill for a master’s degree in communications.
17. Native people still continue to suffer today from alcohol, drug abuse, and loss of culture.
18. A lot of non-native people believe that the native culture should no longer be preserved.
19. Geddes’ goal for native people is self-government.
20. Geddes plans on informing the children within her culture about the hardships of native people’s past.
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