Stikine people

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.

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

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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