Editing Klawock, Alaska (section)

==History==
Klawock's first settlers were [[Tlingit]] who came from the northern winter village of Tuxekan. They used it as a fishing camp for the summer period, and called it by several different names: Klawerak, Tlevak, Clevak, and Klawak. The name "Klawock" is derived from the [[Tlingit language|Tlingit]] name {{lang|tli|Lawá}}, the man who founded the community.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Haa Léelk'w Hás Aaní Saax'ú / Our Grandparents' Names on the Land|location=Seattle|publisher=University of Washington Press|year=2010|page=168}}</ref> In 1853 a Russian navigator referred to the village as "Klyakkhan", and in 1855 as "Thlewakh".<ref name="Bright2004">{{cite book|last=Bright|first=William|author-link=William Bright|title=Native American Placenames of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA229|access-date=June 12, 2013|year=2004|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3598-4|page=229}}</ref>

In 1868, European Americans opened a [[trading post]] and a [[salmon]] saltery; some years later, in 1878, a San Francisco firm opened the first cannery in Alaska. In the following decades, several others were established. A United States [[post office]] was established in 1882. The 1890 census recorded the town's population as 260.

The [[Alaska Native Brotherhood]] (ANB) and [[Alaska Native Sisterhood]] (ANS), nonprofit organizations working for civil rights of [[Alaska Natives]], were established by residents in 1912. Its founders and many volunteers built the Town Hall and a community center in 1939, during the [[Great Depression]].

In 1929 the town was incorporated as a city, and in 1934 [[United States Congress|Congress]] awarded federal funding for the expansion of the cannery, on the condition that the community remains liquor-free. At the same time, the Klawock Cooperative Association (a nonprofit organization) was formed to manage the cannery.

In 1931 [[John Barrymore]] looted a Totem pole from  the abandoned  village of Tuxekan; in 2015 the pole was returned to the [[Tlingit]].<ref>[https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/39052 Totem pole looted by John Barrymore returns home October 26,2015]</ref>