What the record shows
The federal survey describes the site: At N entrance to Tuxekan Narrows, W coast of Prince of Wales I., , 25 mi N of Klawak, Alex. Arch.
"Name of a former Tlingit Indian village published in 1895 as ""Tuxeau"" and in 1899 as ""Tuxecan"" by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS). Hodge (1910, p. 858), Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), says ""Tuxican. An old Tlingit town belonging to the Henya * * *. Formerly it was the chief Henya town, but the Henya have now moved to Klawak."""
Tuxekanappears in the U.S. Geological Survey's place-name archive as a historical populated place — a settlement that once carried a name and no longer does. Our editors are verifying its full story against census records, newspaper archives, and county histories; this record will grow as sources are confirmed.
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