Carcross/Tagish First Nation hosts Yukon handgames championship for first time – CBC
Jul 15, 2025
‘Never seen anything like it’: Biggest turnout in tournament history, says attendee
Drummers, spectators and handgames players crowded around three mats in a packed Haa Shagóon Hídi Hall in Carcross this weekend, as hundreds of competitors played for the 37th Yukon Annual Handgames Championship.
Gordon Peter, a member of the Ross River Dena Council, has been playing handgames since the early 1990s and has travelled the North competing since 2005.
With 74 teams of six players each, Peter said he had never seen a Yukon tournament as well-attended as this one.
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