FDI - Tanaina

*Ethnie:*	TANAINA
*Language:*	Tanaina
*Family:*	Tanaina-Ahtna
*Stock:*	Athapaskan
*Phylum:*	Na-Dene
*Macro-Culture:*	Alaska

The Tanaina were a coastal fishing and hunter culture of Alaska. They lived about the drainage of Cook Inlet north of about Kalgon Island, the north half of Iliamna Lake and northward to the slopes of Mt. McKinley and the Alaska Range. They suffered huge population loses to Russian aggression and White introduced diseases.

Year	*History*
1778	Cook entered Cook Inlet and traded with tribe
1784	Russian settlement at Kodiak, began to exploit Cook Inlet area
1785	Russian party took 20 hostages to achieve trade advantage
1786	Began trading with Portlock and Dixon
1788	Visited by Capt. Douglas
1791	Russian post at Kenai River
1799	Russian-American Company mercantile monopoly established
1804	Novo-Arkhangel founded on Sitka Island
1836	Smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis epidemics
1845	Russian Orthodox missionization
1867	Alaska Purchase
188X	Salmon canners monopolized best fishing streams
1900	Beginning of 25 years of epidemics including diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, pneumonia, and influenza
1903	Influx of miners
1915	Tribe began commercial fishing

Year	AK Population	Source
	4,500	Townsend aboriginal estimate
1700	4,500	NAHDB calculation
1800	1,500	NAHDB calculation
1818	1,471	Petroff estimate
1825	1,299	Baron Wrangell estimate
1840	1,628	Veniaminoff estimate
1860	937	Holy Synod
1880	614	Census
1890	724	1890
1900	890	Mooney estimate
1900	900	NAHDB calculation
1970	531	Census
2000	800	NAHDB calculation