Editing Sitka, Alaska (section)

==In popular culture==
* [[Louis L'Amour]] penned ''Sitka'', his fictional account of the events surrounding the United States' purchase of the Alaska Territory from the Russians for $7.2 million in 1867.
* Novelist [[James Michener]] lived at Sitka's [[Sheldon Jackson College]] while doing research for his epic work, [[Alaska (novel)|''Alaska'']].
* The 1952 film ''[[The World in His Arms]]'' has Russian Sitka as one of its settings.
* Sitka is the opening setting in [[Ivan Doig]]'s 1982 historical fiction, ''The Sea Runners''.
* Sitka is mentioned in Chapter 53 of [[James Clavell]]'s 1993 historical fiction about Japan, ''[[Gai-Jin (novel)|Gai-Jin]]''.
* Mystery author [[John Straley]] described Sitka as "...an island town where people feel crowded by the land and spread out on the sea."
* Part of the action in the novel ''[[César Cascabel]]'' by [[Jules Verne]] takes place in Sitka in May–June 1867, during the transfer of ownership to the United States.
* A fictionalized Sitka, inhabited by several million [[Emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe|Jews who fled from Nazi-occupied Europe]] and their descendants, is the setting of the [[alternate history]] detective story ''[[The Yiddish Policemen's Union]]'', by [[Michael Chabon]].
* Sitka is featured in the episode "Z-9000" of the Argentine TV series ''[[Los simuladores]]'' as the place where its antagonist, Lorenzo, is sent to keep him away from his wife whom he used to assault, under the pretext that a clone of him is trying to kill him.
* Sitka is a setting in the 2009 film ''[[The Proposal (2009 film)|The Proposal]]'' starring [[Sandra Bullock]] and [[Ryan Reynolds]], although the scenes were filmed in [[Rockport, Massachusetts]].
* Sitka is the name of one of the characters in the Disney film ''Brother Bear'' (2004).
* Sitka was featured in a 2012 episode of the Travel Channel's popular series ''[[Bizarre Foods]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.travelchannel.com/video/diving-for-dinner-in-alaska |title=Diving for Dinner in Alaska |publisher=Travel Channel |access-date=July 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731040215/http://www.travelchannel.com/video/diving-for-dinner-in-alaska |archive-date=July 31, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> starring [[Andrew Zimmern]]. In this episode Zimmern ate herring eggs, stink heads, and sea cucumbers.
* Sitka was named one of the ''Top 20 Small Towns to Visit in 2013''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/The-20-Best-Small-Towns-to-Visit-in-2013-196855051.html|title=The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2013|last=Spano|first=Susan|date=March 31, 2013|work=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130821194227/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/The-20-Best-Small-Towns-to-Visit-in-2013-196855051.html|archive-date=August 21, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> by ''[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]'' magazine.