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And the buoys aren’t just traveling to new homes: Kehoe said that former Sitkan Libby Stortz painted her buoy at home in Arizona, before shipping it back to Sitka for the auction.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2021

The ships began to line up and land field-pieces for action, when a Sitkan came out with overtures of peace.

From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

He warned Baranof's hunters not to be led off inland bear hunting, for the bear hunt might be a Sitkan Indian in decoy to trap the hunters into an ambush.

From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

The Sitkan of to-day manages to till a kitchen-garden that suffices; but his wants are few, and then he can always fall back on canned provision if his fresh food fails.

From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Stoddard, Charles Warren

Whether rival traders, deserters from an American ship, living with the Sitkan Indians, instigated the conspiracy cannot be known.

From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)