Scope and Contents: This collection contains papers associated with the history of the Tlingit people of the Kake, Alaska area, or Kéex’ Kwáan Tlingit and lands. The collection, comprised of approximately 100 pages of photocopied documents, contains various typed histories by Tlingit historians and five transcribed oral history recordings about the Kéex’ Kwáan Tlingit by Tlingit elders Johnny C. Jackson (1893-1895) and Jimmy George Sr. (1889-1990). It appears these were all complied by staff at the Organized Village of Kake circa 1995, but most of the transcribed oral histories in this collection date to circa 1975. Also included are three photocopied letters to Kake Tlingit dated to 1903 and 1905 from Alaska Governor John Brady.
Regarding the oral histories, four these concerning Johnny C. Jackson (Gooch Eesh) of Kake, who was of the Raven moiety, Kaach.adi clan, Sitkweidí yádi. One concerns Jimmy George Sr. (Woochx Kaduhaa), who was Dakl’aweidi; Deisheetaan yádi; Keet Hit. These transcribed oral histories speak about the history of the Kéex’ Kwáan Tlingit.
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