ANOOSHI LINGIT AANI KA: RUSSIANS IN TLINGIT AMERICA: THE BATTLES OF SITKA,1802 AND 1804

摘要

This is the fourth in the important series 'Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature' published by the Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau, Alaska. The aim of this volume is to present documents setting out works of Tlingit oral history in parallel with Russian and other documents referring to the same events, the two 'battles' of Sitka that took place in 1802 and 1804. The first of these was the culmination of an increasingly tense situation that developed after the turn of the century in southeast Alaska between the Russians and the Tlingit. There had been a series of relatively minor skirmishes between the two caused by infiltration by Russian parties into traditional Tlingit hunting grounds, and the situation was apparently exacerbated by murders precipitated by the Russians and largely executed by Aleuts employed by them, and their abuse of gravesites.