Horses for Sale near Sitka, AK

About Sitka, AK

The current name Sitka (derived from Sheet’ká, a contraction of the Tlingit Shee At'iká) means "People on the Outside of Baranof Island," whose Tlingit name is Sheet’-ká X'áat'l (here contracted to Shee). The area now known as the downtown area of Sitka was originally settled by the Tlingit people over 10,000 years ago. Russian explorers settled Old Sitka in 1799, naming it Fort Saint Michael ( Russian: форт Архангела Михаила, t Fort Arkhangela Mikhaila). The governor of Russian America, Alexander Baranov, arrived under the auspices of the Russian-American Company, a colonial trading company chartered by Tsar Paul I. In June 1802, Tlingit warriors destroyed the original settlement, killing many of the Russians, with only a few managing to escape.