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Yukon UNESCO World Heritage bid shifts focus from Gold Rush to colonialism cbc.ca 2 hrs ago CBC/Radio-Canada © Mike Rudyk/CBC A traditional canoe at the annual gathering at Moosehide village, in 2018. The Moosehide site is one part of the proposed Tr ondëk-Klondike UNESCO World Heritage Site. Three years after withdrawing a bid to become a UNESCO World Heritage site, a local committee in Dawson City, Yukon, is trying again this time shifting focus from mining and the Klondike Gold Rush to the experience of colonialism by First Nations. Tr ondëk-Klondike as a site tells an exceptional story that reflects Indigenous peoples  Tr ondëk Hwëch in peoples experience and adaptation to what we know as the phenomenon of European colonialism, said Lee Whalen, of the Tr ondëk Hwëch in First Nation s heritage department.

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