The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867

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The Tlingits, the biggest Indian group in Alaska, have lived in Alaska’s coastal southwestern region for centuries and first met non-Natives in 1741 all through an encounter with the crew of the Russian explorer Alexei Chirikov. The volatile and complex connections between the Tlingits and their Russian neighbors, in addition to British and American voyagers and traders, are the topic of this classic work, first published in Russian and now revised and up to date for this English-language edition. Andrei Val’terovich Grinev bases his account on hundreds of documents from archives in Russia and america; he also depends on official reports, the notes of travelers, the investigations of historians and ethnographers, museum collections, atlases, illustrations, and photographs.
 
Grinev outlines a picture of traditional Tlingit society before contact with Europeans after which analyzes interactions between the Tlingit people and newcomers. He examines the changes that took place within the Tlingits’ traditional material and non secular culture, in addition to military affairs, all through the Russian-American period. He also considers the dynamics of the Tlingits’ population, the increase in interethnic marriage, their relationships with European immigrants, and their ethnology.

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