Usage examples of "sitkan".
Thus the terrible Sitkan massacre of a later day was preceded by the slaughter of the first Russians to reach America.
Whether rival traders, deserters from an American ship, living with the Sitkan Indians, instigated the conspiracy cannot be known.
The ships began to line up and land field-pieces for action, when a Sitkan came out with overtures of peace.
Baranof would have selected the site of the present Sitka, high, rocky and secure from attack, but the old Sitkan chief refused to sell it, bartering for glass beads and trinkets a site some miles north of the present town.
Aleut Indians, impressed as hunters, were about the fort, for the fiery Kolosh or Sitkans of this region would not bow the neck to Russian tyranny.
The hostile Sitkans husbanded their strength with a coolness equal to the famous thin red line of British fame.
Lisiansky then undertook the campaign, letting drive such a brisk fire the next day that the Sitkans came suing for peace by the afternoon.
Naught of the Sitkans remained but thirty dead warriors and all their children, murdered during the night to prevent their cries betraying the retreat.