This talk retells the social and environmental upheavals of the Klondike Gold Rush through stories from two kinds of beavers: the furry 50-pound dam building kind, and Beaver—a critical figure in the origin stories and legal ideas of the Han Hwech'in, the Indigenous people of the Klondike region, asking how thinking with such sources of theory can expand our narratives and conceptions of the relationship between human beings and the wider, animate world.