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- ↑ "European Double Guitar". Metropolitan Museum of Art . Retrieved 2024-06-02.
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- ↑ "Yakutat Tlingit Ethnographic Study". National Park Service . Retrieved 2024-06-01.
- ↑ "Yakutat Tligit Tribe". ProPublica. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 2024-06-01.
- ↑ "Yakutat tribal leader fears loss of land as bank sues Southeast Alaska village corporation for $13.3 million". Alaska Beacon . Retrieved 2024-06-01.
- ↑ Dunham, Mike (May 18, 2016). "Elaine Abraham, ground-breaking Tlingit elder, dead at 87." Alaska Dispatch News. Retrieved 2024-06-01.