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University of Washington, Alaska and Western Canada Collection, AWC0322
The Tlingit people inhabited the land around Shee Atika, today called Sitka, for more than 10,000 years. In 1804, Russian-American Company manager Alexander Baranof renamed it New Archangel following the last major battle between Alaska Natives and the Europeans.