Stikine people

Lithograph of the Stikine village at Fort Wrangell, Alaska, c. 1880.

The Stikine people (Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan) are a ḵwáan or regional group of the Tlingit, today based at Wrangell, Alaska.[1] Their historical territory included Wrangell Island and other islands of the Alexander Archipelago, as well as the basin of the lower Stikine River.

References

  1. ^ Dean, Jonathan R. (1995). ""Uses of the Past" on the Northwest Coast: The Russian American Company and Tlingit Nobility, 1825-1867". Ethnohistory. 42 (2): 265–302. doi:10.2307/483087. ISSN 0014-1801.

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