Sitka
noun
a town in SE Alaska, on an island in the Alexander Archipelago: the capital of former Russian America.
Sitkan
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a word derived from
Sitka.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Most of the Sitkan Kolosh kept aloof from the Russian settlement after the establishment of the new fort on Chatham Strait, near the entrance of Peril Strait.
From The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast by Clarence Leroy Andrews
So are the islands that lie between it and the Sitkan shore handsome and ornamental, but there are far too many of them.
From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Charles Warren Stoddard
The Kolosh or Sitkan tribes had only bided their time.
From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
