# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kate-carmack
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:55.306Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kate-carmack"
name: "Kate Carmack"
slug: "kate-carmack"
description: "Shaaw Tláa, also known as Kate Carmack, was a Tagish First Nation woman who was one of the party that first found gold in the Klondike River in 1896, and is sometimes credited with being the person who made the actual discovery, although her biographer, Deb Vanasse, has concluded that her brother Keish was the one that actually found the gold, and that Kate stayed behind at the family fish camp at the mouth of the Klondike River while her husband George Carmack, her nephew Kaa Goox, and Keish were away prospecting. According to Vanasse, in August 1896 Kate met prospector William Douglas Johns at the fish camp, and he asked her if she would see him a pair of moose hide mittens. This Kate agreed to, and Vanasse wrote “she stayed up all night cutting and stitching the mittens, for which her visitor paid with a large black silk handkerchief, a bargain that, according to him, pleased Kate greatly."
tagline: "Credited with making the discovery that led to the Klondike Gold Rush (1862–1920)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shaaw_Tl%C3%A1a.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1862"
deathDate: "1920-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.97
  momentum:             1.752138806113621
  historical:           5.481894666666667
  currentAttention:     8.25082508250825
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Carmack"
    title: "Kate Carmack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Carmackov%C3%A1"
    title: "Kate Carmacková"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Carmack"
    title: "Kate Carmack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BA"
    title: "Кейт Кармак"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaaw_Tl%C3%A1a"
    title: "Shaaw Tláa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82"
    title: "Кармак, Кейт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3892577"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump