Hinyaa Kwáan

Hinyaa Kwáan is a Tlingit community of the Prince of Wales Island country, where salmon streams flow through forest to the island’s many bays. Families spent part of the year together in winter villages and travelled to fishing and gathering places in other seasons. The rivers and lakes of the island supported important sockeye runs; people built fishing structures in tidal waters to guide and catch returning salmon. Tuxekan was one of the Hinyaa villages on the island’s northern shore.