Angoon Wedding

Angoon (sometimes formerly spelled Angun) is a city on Admiralty Island in Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 572. The name in Tlingit, Aangon, means roughly "isthmus town."

Admiralty Island has long been the home of the Kootznoowoo Tlingit group. Kootznoowoo means fortress of bears. Angoon has a less-rainy climate than most of southeastern Alaska and was valued by the Tlingit for that reason.

During the Russian period in Alaska, from the 1700s to the mid-1800s, fur trading was a major economic activity in the area.

In 1878, after the Alaska Purchase, the Northwest Trading Company established a trading post and whaling station on nearby Killisnoo Island and employed Angoon villagers to hunt whales. Whaling, a school and a Russian Orthodox Church attracted many Tlingits to neighboring Killisnoo.