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Sugpiaq and Alutiiq are basically gone, Tlingit has a revival but it’s not around, Eyak is dead, etc.

Heck, the Tlingit in Southeast Alaska were running water-based slave raids as far afield as California before the Europeans arrived.

We know the response of the Tlingit people to this bounty from very recent history: they would throw huge banquets called potlatches.

The Tlingit and Haida literally idolize them in totems, and have a wonderful mythology that includes stories like Raven stealing the sun.

Axis #1, from the report, is that nationality diversity is important, in which case a white Protestant Canadian from Toronto brings more diversity than a Russian Orthodox Tlingit from rural Southeast Alaska.

For example, the Tlingit in Alaska believe in reincarnation, but in their tribal way of life, there really isn't any compelling "use" (in the Machiavellistic sense) for that belief.

Many of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, such as the Haida and Tlingit, were traditionally known as fierce warriors and slave-traders, raiding as far as California.

The Tlingit of the Northwest also had a complicated system of property rights, including something akin to what we call "intellectual property" (though there were significant differences to our system).

Some phenomena normally associated with agricultural societies (e.g., elite conspicuous consumption, slavery, warfare) have been observed in non-agricultural Pacific Northwest tribes like the Tlingit, where abundant salmon runs led to huge surpluses.

He of course acknowledges the dangers of encountering a more technologically advanced civilization, but he goes out of his way to contrast the frightening example of the Aztecs with other more peaceful first encounters such as the Tlingit.

You can take it that my earlier comment doesn't apply to Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, etc peoples of Alaska.

Tejanos, Amish, the Diné, Native Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, Haredi Jews in New York, most Tlingit, the Gullah, and Cajuns are all pretty much American.

For example, the Tlingit in Alaska believe in reincarnation, but in their tribal way of life, there really isn't any compelling "use" (in the Machiavellistic sense) for that belief.

The Tlingit of the Northwest also had a complicated system of property rights, including something akin to what we call "intellectual property" (though there were significant differences to our system).

Many of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, such as the Haida and Tlingit, were traditionally known as fierce warriors and slave-traders, raiding as far as California.

Some phenomena normally associated with agricultural societies (e.g., elite conspicuous consumption, slavery, warfare) have been observed in non-agricultural Pacific Northwest tribes like the Tlingit, where abundant salmon runs led to huge surpluses.

He of course acknowledges the dangers of encountering a more technologically advanced civilization, but he goes out of his way to contrast the frightening example of the Aztecs with other more peaceful first encounters such as the Tlingit.