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It's August 16, 1896 at Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River in the Yukon Territory of Canada.

Keish, a member of the Tagish people, waged through the cool, clear waters.

He and other members of his group are low on supplies, so he's got hunting for moose.

But as he walks through the water, he also keeps an eye out for something else, gold.

As a Tagish man, Keish has spent his whole life living off the area's abundant resources.

But in recent years, more and more white men have been trying to do the same, coming to his homeland and search of gold.

He shakes his head when he remembers the way he and his siblings would compete to collect gold flakes as children.

They couldn't use it for food or shelter, so it had no value to them.

Still, it was fun to see how many sparkly pieces they could find in the waters where they lived.

Today though, Keish would never discard gold.

In this new era, he knows it could mean life-changing wealth.

As he hears a telltale sound of a moose trampling through the brush ahead,

Keish tears his eyes away from the water and listens carefully, moving toward his prey.

Then he lifts his gun and fires.

Keish hollers as he watches the moose fall to the ground.

He looks back to call out to his family members who were following him, but he finds himself alone in the waters.

As Keish waits for them to catch up, he looks back down into the water and a sudden thrill runs through him.

There, on the riverbed, he sees the familiar glint of gold, but a lot of it, more than he's ever seen before.

Keish pulls out a pan and gets to work, frantically collecting the metal.

And as his pan fills up, Keish is hit by the realization that he's about to become a very rich man.

Over the coming years, the story of Keish's discovery at Rabbit Creek will become shrouded in myth and controversy.

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