Stikine people

{{Short description|Regional group of the Tlingit people}}

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The Stikine people (Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan) are a ḵwáan or regional group of the Tlingit, today based at Wrangell, Alaska.{{Cite journal |last=Dean |first=Jonathan R. |date=1995 |title="Uses of the Past" on the Northwest Coast: The Russian American Company and Tlingit Nobility, 1825-1867 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/483087 |journal=Ethnohistory |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=265–302 |doi=10.2307/483087 |issn=0014-1801}} Their historical territory included Wrangell Island and other islands of the Alexander Archipelago, as well as the basin of the lower Stikine River.