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  1. Antiquity
    Origins
    Today, all tribes tell stories of their origins. There are as many creation stories as there are tribes, ...
  2. 40,000–10,000 BC
    Homelands
    Contemporary Native peoples from many nations teach that they originated in their traditional lands. ...
  3. 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 ...
  4. 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 ...
  5. 1766
    Armed Russian fur traders massacre Unangan (Aleut)
    The Russian trader, Ivan Solovief, arms his workers to murder Unangan (Aleut) men, women, and children ...
  6. 1775
    Smallpox strikes again in North America
    As the American Revolution begins, epidemic smallpox spreads across North America, killing hundreds ...
  7. 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 ...
  8. 1794
    Russian missionaries come to Kodiak, Alaska
    The first Russian Orthodox missionaries arrive at Kodiak and begin trying to convert the Sugpiaq (Yup’ ...
  9. 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 ...
  10. 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 ...
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