August 2025

This is a joint news release between the Government of Yukon and Yukon University.

Over the 2025–26 academic year, Yukon University, in partnership with the Government of Yukon, is offering tailored professional training for educational assistants employed with Yukon schools. The new four-part “micro-credential” started with an orientation and engagement session on August 20, 2025, at the Ayamdigut campus, with participation from 218 educational assistants from schools around the territory.

Yukon University’s Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Liberal Arts, Victoria Castillo, recently published an article in the peer reviewed journal Ethnohistory shedding new light on mid-19th century First Nations hunting practices in subarctic Canada.

Fort Selkirk, Yukon, served as a significant site of interaction between the Northern Tutchone people and Hudson’s Bay Company fur traders during the mid-nineteenth century. In 2006, archaeological excavations at the site led to the recovery of a distinctive moose (Alces alces) scapula. This artifact offers material evidence of early contact period Northern Tutchone hunting techniques and scapulimancy. Etched into the surface of the bone is a detailed zoomorphic image of a large male ungulate, likely a moose, accompanied by an arrow in flight near its head.

A powerful First Nation-led initiative is taking shape across the Yukon to help communities improve safety, healing, and wellness. House of Wolf & Associates, in partnership with Yukon University, is proud to announce the launch of the Community Safety Guardian (CSG) Training Program, beginning September 22, 2025.

This program supports First Nations-led safety programs that are already making a difference in communities across the North. Community Safety Guardians are trusted community members trained to provide culturally safe support, de-escalate conflict, and assist people in crisis. Unlike conventional enforcement approaches, Guardians focus on healing, wellness, and connection, rather than enforcement or punishment.