This area is the traditional homeland of the Tlingit people, and home of a historic settling of Haida as well as a modern settlement of Tsimshian.

While in Sitka, President Harding visited and shook hands with Alaskan Native Tlingit elder chief Katlean outside in a crowd of people.

By 1802 Russian colonists noted that " Boston " ( U. S .- based ) skippers were trading African slaves for otter pelts with the Tlingit people in Southeast Alaska.

The Tlingit ( or ; also spelled Tlinkit ) are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of America.

The territory occupied by the modern Tlingit people in Alaska is however not restricted to particular reservations, unlike most tribes in the contiguous 48 states.

Tlingit people as a whole participate in the commercial economy of Alaska, and as a consequence live in typically American nuclear family households with private ownership of housing and land.

Despite the legal and political complexities, the territory historically occupied by the Tlingit can be reasonably designated as their modern homeland, and Tlingit people today envision the land from around Yakutat south through the Alaskan Panhandle and including the lakes in the Canadian interior as being Lingít Aaní, the Land of the Tlingit.

The Battle of Sitka ( 1804 ) played a pivotal role in the history of the Tlingit people and the formation of Russian Alaska.

He also photographed the Tlingit people in Alaska, and was commissioned by the United States Army to photograph the Modoc War in 1873.

The term " Haida Nation " refers both to the people as a whole and also to their government on Canadian territory, the Council of the Haida Nation ; the government for those in the United States is the Central Council Tlingit Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.

He argues that the Haida people of the Queen Charlotte Islands originated carving of the poles, and that the practice spread outward to the Tsimshian and Tlingit, and then down the coast to the tribes of British Columbia and northern Washington.

* Charlie Jones, Chief Shakes VII of the Tlingit people

Example cultures or societies include the Cherokee, Choctaw, Gitksan, Haida, Hopi, Iroquois, Lenape, Navajo, and Tlingit of North America ; the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia and Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia ; the Nairs of Kerala and the Bunts of Karnataka in south India ; the Khasi, Jaintia and Garo of Meghalaya in northeast India ; the Mosuo of China ; the Basques of Spain and France ; the Akan including the Ashanti of west Africa ; the Tuaregs of west and north Africa ; and the Serer of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.

The area around present-day Skagway was inhabited by Tlingit people from prehistoric times.

The Tlingit people residing in the Wrangell area, who were there centuries before Europeans, call themselves the Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan after the nearby Stikine River.

Tlingit people and their ancestors have inhabited this island for thousands of years.

According to Naanyaa. aayí clan traditions, Tlingit people migrated down the Stikine River during a time when the river still flowed underneath glaciers.

The forest is named for the Tongass group of the Tlingit people, who inhabited the southernmost areas of the Alaska panhandle near what is now Ketchikan.

The northward migration of the Tlingit people around Yakutat in precontact times encouraged the use of Tlingit rather than Eyak along much of the Pacific Coast of Alaska.

* The Tlingit people

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To the north west were the peoples of the Na-Dene languages, which include the Athapaskan-speaking peoples and the Tlingit, who lived on the islands of southern Alaska and northern British Columbia.

There has been speculation on the origin of these iron tools, some theories include shipwrecks from East Asia, or possible contact with iron-using cultures from Siberia, as hinted in the more advanced woodworking found in northern tribes such as the Tlingit.

The exception is an area known as Inland Tlingit, which extends up the Taku River and into northern British Columbia and the Yukon Territory around the Atlin ( Áa Tleen “ Big Lake ”) and Teslin ( Desleen < Tas Tleen “ Big Thread ”) lake districts, as well as a concentration around Bennett Lake at the end of the Chilkoot Trail ( Jilkhoot ).

Angoon, a traditional Tlingit community home to 572 people, is the only settlement on the island, although an unpopulated section of the city of Juneau comprises < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 264. 68 km² ( 102. 19 sq mi )</ span > ( 6. 2 percent ) of the island's land area near its northern end.

It was rumored that the British ( under the auspices of the Hudson's Bay Company ) staged a meeting with the northern Tlingit clans in Angoon in 1801, wherein they offered muskets and gunpowder to the Tlingit in exchange for exclusive fur trading rights.

The Tlingit concluded that a change in tactics was in order: rather than suffer the ignominy of defeat on the battlefield, they formulated a strategy wherein the Clan would disappear into the surrounding forest ( where they felt that the Russians could not engage them ) and establish a new settlement on the northern part of the island.

Raids by Haida, Tlingit and other northern tribes from British and Russian territory terrorized Native Americans and settlers alike in Puget Sound in the 1850s ( see Port Gamble ).

An inland subgroup, known as the Inland Tlingit, inhabits the far northwestern part of the province of British Columbia and the southern Yukon Territory in Canada.

Delineating the modern territory of the Tlingit is complicated because they are spread across the border between the United States and Canada, by the lack of designated reservations, other complex legal and political concerns, and a relatively high level of mobility among the population, as well as overlapped territory with various Athabascan peoples such as the Tahltan, Kaska and Tagish.

In Canada, the modern communities of Atlin, British Columbia ( Taku River Tlingit ), Teslin, Yukon ( Teslin Tlingit Council ), and Carcross, Yukon ( Carcross / Tagish First Nation ) have reserves and are the representative Interior Tlingit populations.

Haida territories lie in both Canada and the United States, as do those of the Tlingit and Tsimshian peoples.

The Tlingit language (; Tlingit: Lingít ) is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada.

Otherwise Tlingit is not found in Canada.

* The Inland Tlingit dialect is spoken in Canada around Atlin Lake and Teslin Lake.

The Tlingit people also live in the Northwest Interior of British Columbia, Canada, and in the southern Yukon Territory.

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1860s – 26 December 1908 ) was a Canadian Tagish / Tlingit First Nation person and one of the co-discoverers of gold that led to the Klondike Gold Rush located in the Yukon territory of Northwest Canada.

* Taku River Tlingit First Nation v. British Columbia-Supreme Court of Canada

The Teslin Tlingit Council ( TTC ) is a First Nation government in the central Yukon in Canada, located in Teslin, Yukon along the Alaska Highway and Teslin Lake.

The tribe's name is said by OED to be from Tlingit Hutsnuwu, lit.