The history of Canada is often centred on the colonial narratives of pioneers and explorers, and celebrated through monuments established at historic settlements. In these narratives the history of Indigenous peoples gets treated as an abbreviated preface to the history of a place.  Much of the founding mythos of the Yukon is similarly situated around the events related to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. In 2004 Canada placed Tr’ondëk-Klondike on the tentative list of sites to be nominated for World Heritage recognition. During the development of the nomination, the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation observed that many of the site attributes originally put forward for consideration in this process excluded the First Nation experience of a colonial event that dramatically impacted their society. While a broad and complex suite of information sources were ultimately resourced to develop the nomination, in this talk we will focus on the role of archaeological interpretation in expressing a more authentic understanding of the Klondike Gold Rush.