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- ↑ "Dave Porter". Whitehorse Daily Star. May 25, 1982. p. 4. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
- 1 2 "Penikett recalls years of dominance from the left". Whitehorse Star , May 17, 2010.
- ↑ "Getting a stake in the mining patch". The Globe and Mail , January 11, 2013.
- ↑ "First Nations assert land rights in wake of historic case". Yukon News , July 4, 2014.
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