Xutsnoowü Kwáan

Xutsnoowü Kwáan is the homeland of the Hutsnuwu Tlingit on Admiralty Island. Around Kootznahoo Inlet, their principal settlements included Angoon and nearby Killisnoo Island. A Tlingit account tells how Deisheetaan hunters followed a beaver from the inlet to a beach on Chatham Strait and chose the site for a house. By the late eighteenth century, Russian and English fur traders were visiting the area.