This work is an annotated translation of materials on the history and culture of the Tlingit Indians written by Russian Orthodox missionaries, especially Archimandrite Anatolii Kamenskii, at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The translator, Sergi Kan, has written an extensive introduction, and has annotated his translations with referances to relevant ethnographic and historical studies, corrections, and clarifications. In addition there is a glossary of geographical terms, as well as an index and bibliography.