Tlingit
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Tlingit |
| Ethnie: | TLINGIT |
| Language: | Tlingit |
| Family: | Tlingit |
| Stock: | Nuclear Na-Dene |
| Phylum: | Na-Dene |
| Macro-Culture: | Northwest |
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| The Tlingit were a large sedentary coastal maritime hunter nation of the northwest culture. They occupied all of the coast and islands of the southern arm of Alaska from Yukatat Bay southward. They suffered from numerous conflicts with the Russians, and later, the Americans. |
| Aboriginal Locations (Villages) |
| AK Auk (2), Chilkat (7), Gonaho (1), Hehl (1), Henya or Hanega (3), Huna (6), Hutsnuwu (3), Kake (1), Kuiu (2), Sanya (1), Sitka (8), Stikine (3), Sumdum (1), Taku (2), Tongass (2), Yakutat (4) |
| Present Locations |
| AK Chugach Alaska Corporation, Ancorage |
| Katalla-Chilkat Tlingit Tribe of Alaska, Juneau |
| Sealaska Corporation, Juneau |
| BC Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Atlin |
| Year | History |
| 1741 | Territory discovered by Chirikoff and Bering, soon to be followed other Russians as well as explorers and traders from Mexico, England, France, and New England |
| 1775 | Spaniard Bruno de Hetza visit started smallpox epidemic |
| 1786 | La Perouse lost two boats and their men in severe tides of Lituya Bay |
| 1799 | Russians built a fort near |
| 1802 | Sitka Natives drove Whites from Sitka post |
| 1804 | Baranoff drove Indians from fort, Sitka later became Alaska capital until 1906, Indian outbreaks continued due to rough Russian treatment |
| 1836 | Smallpox epidemic |
| 1840 | Smallpox epidemic |
| 1867 | Alaska Purchase |
| 1868 | US Troops destroyed Stikine and Kake |
| 1877 | Presbyterian mission established |
| 1882 | Presbyterian mission established |
| 1898 | Klondike gold rush |
| Year | Total Population | AK | BC | Source | |
| 1700 | 10,000 | 10,000 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 1740 | 10,000 | Mooney estimate | |||
| 1800 | 8,000 | 8,000 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 1835 | 5,850 | Veniaminoff estimate | |||
| 1839 | 5,455 | Sir James Douglas estimate | |||
| 1840 | 4,501 | Veniaminoff estimate | |||
| 1861 | 8,597 | Lt. Wehrman, Russian Navy census | |||
| 1880 | 6,763 | Petroff census | |||
| 1890 | 4,501 | Census | |||
| 1900 | 5,000 | 4,700 | 300 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1910 | 4,426 | Census | |||
| 1920 | 3,895 | Census | |||
| 1930 | 4,462 | Census | |||
| 1974 | 422 | CDIA (Inland Tlingit) | |||
| 1978 | 411 | CDIA (Inland Tlingit) | |||
| 1995 | 10,000 | M. Krausse | |||
| 2000 | 11,000 | 10,000 | 1,000 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| None |
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