The Tlingit culture is multifaceted and complex, a characteristic of Northwest Pacific Coast peoples with access to easily exploited rich resources. In Tlingit culture a heavy emphasis is placed upon family and kinship, and on a rich tradition of oratory. Wealth and economic power are important indicators of status, but so is generosity and proper behavior, all signs of "good breeding" and ties to aristocracy. Art and spirituality are incorporated in nearly all areas of Tlingit culture, with even everyday objects such as spoons and storage boxes decorated and imbued with spiritual power and historical associations. ...

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Tlingit, Tlingit - Territory, Tlingit - Culture, Tlingit - Kinship, Tlingit - Property, Tlingit - Potlatch, Tlingit - Art, Tlingit - War, Tlingit - Food, Tlingit - Nutrition, Tlingit - Beach Food, Tlingit - Salmon, Tlingit - Herring and Hooligan, Tlingit - Other Fish, Tlingit - Marine Mammals, Tlingit - Game, Tlingit - Philosophy and Religion, Tlingit - Dualism, Tlingit - Spirituality, Tlingit - Death and the Afterlife, Tlingit - Shamanism, Tlingit - Man and Nature, Tlingit - The Kooshdakhaa, Tlingit - History, Tlingit - Creation myth and the Raven Cycle, Tlingit - The Tlingit migration, Tlingit - Clan histories, Tlingit - First contact, Tlingit - Fur trade, Tlingit - Alaskan purchase, Tlingit - The bombing of Angoon, Tlingit - Territorial education and religion, Tlingit - ANB and recognizing rights, Tlingit - WWII, Tlingit - ANCSA, Tlingit - Today

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Tlingit, Tlingit - Territory, Tlingit - Culture, Tlingit - Kinship, Tlingit - Property, Tlingit - Potlatch, Tlingit - Art, Tlingit - War, Tlingit - Food, Tlingit - Nutrition, Tlingit - Beach Food, Tlingit - Salmon, Tlingit - Herring and Hooligan, Tlingit - Other Fish, Tlingit - Marine Mammals, Tlingit - Game, Tlingit - Philosophy and Religion, Tlingit - Dualism, Tlingit - Spirituality, Tlingit - Death and the Afterlife, Tlingit - Shamanism, Tlingit - Man and Nature, Tlingit - The Kooshdakhaa, Tlingit - History, Tlingit - Creation myth and the Raven Cycle, Tlingit - The Tlingit migration, Tlingit - Clan histories, Tlingit - First contact, Tlingit - Fur trade, Tlingit - Alaskan purchase, Tlingit - The bombing of Angoon, Tlingit - Territorial education and religion, Tlingit - ANB and recognizing rights, Tlingit - WWII, Tlingit - ANCSA, Tlingit - Today

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The traditional history of the Tlingit people involves the creation myths, the Raven Cycle, other tangentially related events during the mythic age when spirits freely transformed from animal to human and back, the migration story of coming to Tlingit lands, the clan histories, and more recent events near the time of first contact with Europeans. At this point the European and American historical records come into play, and although modern Tlingits have access to and review these historical records, they continue to maintain their own historical record by telling stories of ancestors and events which have importance to them against th ...

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Tlingit, Tlingit - Territory, Tlingit - Culture, Tlingit - Kinship, Tlingit - Property, Tlingit - Potlatch, Tlingit - Art, Tlingit - War, Tlingit - Food, Tlingit - Nutrition, Tlingit - Beach Food, Tlingit - Salmon, Tlingit - Herring and Hooligan, Tlingit - Other Fish, Tlingit - Marine Mammals, Tlingit - Game, Tlingit - Philosophy and Religion, Tlingit - Dualism, Tlingit - Spirituality, Tlingit - Death and the Afterlife, Tlingit - Shamanism, Tlingit - Man and Nature, Tlingit - The Kooshdakhaa, Tlingit - History, Tlingit - Creation myth and the Raven Cycle, Tlingit - The Tlingit migration, Tlingit - Clan histories, Tlingit - First contact, Tlingit - Fur trade, Tlingit - Alaskan purchase, Tlingit - The bombing of Angoon, Tlingit - Territorial education and religion, Tlingit - ANB and recognizing rights, Tlingit - WWII, Tlingit - ANCSA, Tlingit - Today

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Yakutat Bay is 29 km (18 mi) across, extending southwest from Disenchantment Bay to the Gulf of Alaska. "Yakutat" is a Tlingit Indian name reported as "Jacootat" and "Yacootat" by Lisianski in 1805. The bay was named "Baie de Monti" by La Perouse, who visited it in 1786, for one of his officers. In the same year, Captain Nathaniel Portlock named it "Admiralty Bay", while the Spanish called it "Almirantazgo." The name "Bering Bay" has also been applied to the feature on the assumption that Bering visited it in 1741.

The voiceless uvular plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like [k], except that the tongue makes contact not on the hard palate but on the uvula. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is q, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is q. Voiceless uvular plosive - Features. Features of the voiceless uvular plosive: Its manner of articulation is ...

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• Voiceless uvular plosive - Features
• Voiceless uvular plosive - In other languages

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Alaska Natives are indigenous peoples who live in what is now the U.S. state of Alaska. They include Inuit (specifically Inupiat) and Yupik Eskimos, Aleuts, and several Native American peoples. Alaska Natives - History. In 1918 the Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded. In 1971 Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act which settled land and financial claims and provided for the establishment of 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations to administer those claims. Similar to the status of the Can ...

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• Alaska Natives - History
• Alaska Natives - Cultures

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Athabaskan or Athabascan (also Athapascan or Athapaskan) is the name of a large group of distantly related Native American peoples, also known as the Athabasca Indians or Athapaskes, located in two main Southern and Northern groups in western North America, and of their language family. The Athabaskan family is the largest family in North America in terms of number of languages and the number of speakers (the Uto-Aztecan family which extends into Mexico has many more speakers). In terms of terr ...

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• Athabaskan languages - Languages
• Athabaskan languages - Family division
• Athabaskan languages - Areal list
• Athabaskan languages - Proto-Athabaskan
• Athabaskan languages - Phonology
• Athabaskan languages - Bibliography

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Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants. Uvular consonants are less common than velars. They may be plosives, fricatives, nasal stops, trills, or approximants, though the IPA does not provide a separate symbol for the approximant, and the symbol for the voiced fricative is used instead. The uvular consonants ...

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Native Americans is a term which has several different common meanings and scope, according to regional use and context. See the below articles, which describe various indigenous peoples in the following contexts: Indigenous peoples of the Americas, natives of the entire American supercontinent Indigenous peoples in the United States, natives of the United States and its territories Native Americans in the United States, natives of the continental United States only; equivalent to American Indians ...

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From before the time of European settlement in the Americas, the Gastineau Channel was a favorite fishing ground for local Tlingit Indians, known then as the Auke and Taku tribes, who had inhabited the area for thousands of years. The native cultures are rich with artistic traditions including carving, weaving, orating, singing and dancing, and Juneau has become a major social center for the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian of Southeast Alaska. In 1880, Sitka mining engineer George Pilz offered a reward to any local chief who could lead ...

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Juneau City and Borough Alaska, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - History, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Geography and climate, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Adjacent boroughs and census areas, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Districts, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - People and culture, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Demographics, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Media, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Colleges and universities, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Trivia

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Ketchikan is located at 55°22′52″N, 131°39′51″W on Revillagigedo Island, 90 miles north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia and 235 miles south of Juneau, Alaska. According to the United States Census Bureau, the City has a total area of 10.7 km² (4.1 mi²). 8.7 km² (3.4 mi²) of it is land and 2.0 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 18.60% water. Average annual rainfall is 152 inches; annual average snowfall is 37 inc ...

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Ketchikan Alaska, Ketchikan Alaska - Geography, Ketchikan Alaska - Demographics, Ketchikan Alaska - Colleges and universities, Ketchikan Alaska - Trivia

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As of 2004, there are 8,044 people, 3,300 households, and 1,997 families residing in the City. The population density is 907.6/km² (2,348.6/mi²). There are 3,645 housing units at an average density of 417.6/km² (1,080.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 65.31% White, 0.84% Black or African American, 19.80% Native American, 6.85% Asian, 0.20% Pacific Islander, 0.52% from other races, and 6.68% from two or more races. 3.38% of t ...

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Ketchikan Alaska, Ketchikan Alaska - Geography, Ketchikan Alaska - Demographics, Ketchikan Alaska - Colleges and universities, Ketchikan Alaska - Trivia

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Arabic and Syriac use this sound phonemically, and it is represented by the letters ﻕ (Qaf) and ܩ (Qōph), respectively, as in the names Iraq and Qatar. Specific dialects of Hebrew also have this sound, written with the letter ק (Qoph, which has a phonetic value of [k] in Israeli Hebrew). Kazakh and Uzbek represent this sound as Қ in the Cyrillic alphabet. Uvular [q] is also found in nearly every language in the northwest of North America, as in Tlingit See also:

Voiceless uvular plosive, Voiceless uvular plosive - Features, Voiceless uvular plosive - In other languages

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Juneau is located at 58°21'5" North, 134°30'42" West (58.351422, -134.511579)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 8,430.4 km² (3,255.0 mi²). 7,036.1 km² (2,716.7 mi²) of it is land and 1,394.3 km² (538.3 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 16.54% water. Average annual rainfall is 54 inches; annual average snowfall is 101 inches. The average high temperature in July is 65 degrees Fahrenheit, and ...

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Juneau City and Borough Alaska, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - History, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Geography and climate, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Adjacent boroughs and census areas, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Districts, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - People and culture, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Demographics, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Media, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Colleges and universities, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Trivia

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Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Demographics. As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 30,711 people, 11,543 households, and 7,641 families residing in the borough. The population density is 4.4/km² (11.3/mi²). There are 12,282 housing units at an average density of 1.7/km² (4.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough is 74.79% White, 0.81% Black or African American, 11.38% Native American, 4.68% Asian, 0.38% Pacific Islander, 1.05% from other races, and 6.91% from two or mo ...

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Juneau City and Borough Alaska, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - History, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Geography and climate, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Adjacent boroughs and census areas, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Districts, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - People and culture, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Demographics, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Media, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Colleges and universities, Juneau City and Borough Alaska - Trivia

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The area was originally settled by the native Tlingit (Kolosh) Indians. Old Sitka was founded in 1799 by Alexandr Baranov, the governor of Russian America. Baronov arrived under the auspices of the Russian-American Company, a "semi-official" colonial trading company chartered by Czar Paul I. In 1802 a group of Tlingit destroyed the original establishment (an area today called the "Old Harbor") and massacred most of the Russian inhabitants. Baranov was forced to levy 10,000 rubles ...

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In September 1788 Malaspina joined forces with José de Bustamante y Guerra and together they approached the Spanish government to organize an expedition to visit the Spanish possessions in America and Asia. The expeditions of two specifically built corvettes, Descubierta and Atrevida, sailed from Cádiz on July 30, 1789. In 1791 the king of Spain gave Malaspina an order to search for Northwest Passage. He surveyed the Alaska coast to the Prince William Sound. At Yakutat Bay, the expedition made contact with the Tlingit. ...

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Alessandro Malaspina, Alessandro Malaspina - Voyages of Exploration, Alessandro Malaspina - Political Controversy and Exile

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It wasn't until October 7, days after the Kiks.ádi put forth their tragic "swan song," that the Russians landed a large contingent of troops to secure the beachhead and to reconnoiter the area in and around Shis'kí Noow. To their great surprise, none of the natives were to be found (unbeknownst to the Russians, the Tlingit had embarked on what is now referred to as the "Sitka Kiks.ádi Survival March"). On October 8, Captain Lisianski visited the abandoned Tlingit fortification and recorded his impressions of what he saw as f ...

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Battle of Sitka, Battle of Sitka - Background, Battle of Sitka - Russian reprisal, Battle of Sitka - Day One, Battle of Sitka - Day Two, Battle of Sitka - Day Three, Battle of Sitka - Day Four, Battle of Sitka - Aftermath, Battle of Sitka - Sitka Kiks.ádi Survival March, Battle of Sitka - Russian Alaska, Battle of Sitka - Tributes, Battle of Sitka - Historic designations

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Hoonah is located at 58°6'34" North, 135°26'11" West (58.109435, -135.436349)GR1. Hoonah is a Tlingit community on the north shore of Chichagof Island, on the Icy Strait. The port at Hoonah is called Port Frederick. Hoonah means "village by the cliff." Hoonah is the principal village for the Huna, a Tlingit group which has lived in the Glacier Bay and Icy Strait area since prehistoric times. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 22.5 km² (8.7 mi²). 17.1 km² (6.6 mi²) of it is land and 5.4 km² (2.1 mi²) of i ...

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Hoonah Alaska, Hoonah Alaska - Geography, Hoonah Alaska - Demographics, Hoonah Alaska - History

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Following the Kiks.ádi victory, Tlingit Shaman Stoonookw (confident that the Russians would soon return, and in force) urged the Clan to construct a new fortification that was capable of withstanding cannon fire, and provided an ample water supply. Despite strong opposition, the Shaman's will prevailed, and the Kiks.ádi made preparations for war. The Sitkas sent messages to their allies requesting assistance, but none was forthcom ...

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Battle of Sitka, Battle of Sitka - Background, Battle of Sitka - Russian reprisal, Battle of Sitka - Day One, Battle of Sitka - Day Two, Battle of Sitka - Day Three, Battle of Sitka - Day Four, Battle of Sitka - Aftermath, Battle of Sitka - Sitka Kiks.ádi Survival March, Battle of Sitka - Russian Alaska, Battle of Sitka - Tributes, Battle of Sitka - Historic designations

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