Kéex Kwáan

Kéex Kwáan is a Tlingit community of the island channels around Kupreanof Island. Its people travelled by canoe among the forested shores and salmon streams of southeastern Alaska, and maintained ties with neighbouring Tlingit communities. Warriors from Kake joined allies at Sitka in 1802 when the Tlingit attacked a Russian post. In the following years American trading ships visited Kake seeking sea otter skins, bringing the fur trade into waters already known to local people.