Tutchone

• Gertie Tom (compiler), Ékeyi: Gyò Cho Chú/My Country: Big Salmon River. Placenames of the Big Salmon River Region, Yukon Territory, Canada. Yukon Native Language Centre, 1987. 84 pp., foldout map. No price indicated. --- Robert Service once wrote that the Yukon is "a land where the mountains are nameless." This collection of Northern Tutchone toponyms should put that conceit to rest. Also included in this beautifully printed and spectacularly illustrated volume are eight narrative texts (Tutchone and English in parallel columns) in which Mrs. Tom describes her travels, both as a child and as an adult, through Tutchone territory. --- Order from: Yukon Native Language Centre, Box 2799, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 5K4, Canada (tel: 403/668-8820; fax: 403/668-8825). [Oct. 1987]