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.

See also

• Taku River Tlingit
• Chief Shakes