Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike  They were
married in a Tagish ceremony. George would use this fact later
to disown her, saying that they'd never been married, but at the
time, he was well satisfied. To have this beauty by his side. To
have her strength match his own. To have a wife who could be his
equal partner on the river and in the bush, in the First Nations
tradition. As elder Kitty Smith put it: "He's got wife. He's all
right! She does EVERYTHING, that Indian woman, you know-hunts,
just like nothing, sets snares for rabbits. That's what they
eat."  Shaaw Tlaa joined George, Keish (who came to be known as
Skookum Jim) and her cousin Kaa Goox (who came to be known as
Dawson Charley), packing from Dyea in May 1887 for Dominion
Lands Surveyor William Ogilvie. Many times she crossed the
Chilkoot Pass, hiking alongside her menfolk, on the paths her
ancestors had traversed for centuries. When the season ended,
Keish and Kaa Goox helped George build a cabin in Dyea to winter
in. George wanted