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Antiquity Origins Today, all tribes tell stories of their origins. There are as many creation stories as there are tribes, ... |
40,000–10,000 BC Homelands Contemporary Native peoples from many nations teach that they originated in their traditional lands. ... |
10,000 BC The Unangan (Aleut) perform surgery Unlike other tribes at this time, the Unangan peoples in the Aleutian Islands west of Alaska understand ... |
1759 Russian fur trade expands in the Aleutian Islands On Umnak and Unalaska, two of the Islands off southwestern Alaska, the Russian merchant Stepan Glotov ... |
1766 Armed Russian fur traders massacre Unangan (Aleut) The Russian trader, Ivan Solovief, arms his workers to murder Unangan (Aleut) men, women, and children ... |
1775 Smallpox strikes again in North America As the American Revolution begins, epidemic smallpox spreads across North America, killing hundreds ... |
1784 Russian fur traders massacre Sugpiaq on Kodiak Island Russian fur traders, led by Grigorii Shelikhov, overwhelm the Sugpiaq (Yup’ik, Alutiiq) in a bloody massacre ... |
1794 Russian missionaries come to Kodiak, Alaska The first Russian Orthodox missionaries arrive at Kodiak and begin trying to convert the Sugpiaq (Yup’ ... |
1796 Czar Paul I charters the Russian-American Company The Russian Czar Paul I grants the Russian-American Company a charter with exclusive rights to the fur ... |
1825 Russians open the first pharmacy in Alaska The new pharmacy serves the growing Russian population in the capital city of Sitka. It dispenses medicine ... |