Sheetʼká

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Sheetʼká is the Tlingit name for the area now known as Sitka, a historic coastal community in Southeast Alaska.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Sheetʼká canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (27)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographic region
traditional Indigenous place
associatedEthnicGroup Tlingit
coastalLocation Northern Pacific Ocean
surface form: North Pacific

Pacific Ocean
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalRegion Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples
surface form: Northwest Coast
hasCulturalImportanceFor Tongass people
surface form: Tlingit people
hasEnvironment temperate rainforest
hasHistoricalContext Russian America period
pre-colonial Tlingit territory
hasHistoricSignificance historic coastal community
hasIndigenousNameType Tlingit toponym
hasLanguage Tlingit
surface form: Tlingit language
hasModernJurisdiction City and Borough of Sitka
hasSettlement Sitka
isEarlierNameFor Sitka
locatedIn Alaska
Southeastern Alaska
surface form: Southeast Alaska

United States of America
surface form: United States
locatedOn Baranof Island
modernName Sitka
nativeNameOf Sitka
partOf Alexander Archipelago
regionType coastal area
traditionalTerritoryOf Tongass people
surface form: Tlingit people
usedBy Tlingit communities

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sitka indigenousName Sheetʼká