Chiefdom · approximate1000 – 1900 · 900 years

Tlingit

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

No editorial summary yet for Tlingit. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.

Borders & accuracy

Chiefdom

A paramount chiefdom with tributary peripheries; extent is inferred from settlement and tribute patterns and remains approximate.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-traced from Smithsonian Handbook vol. 7 (Northwest Coast); Waldman
SNAPSHOT1800
MATCHEDUnited States
POLITY TYPEchiefdom

Wars of this empire1

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Battle of Sitka1804
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1000 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Tlingit (1000 – 1900). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/tlingit · Sources & methodology