The Alaska Historical Commission voted unanimously last week to change the name of Seduction Point to Ayiklutu, a Tlingit word defined as “small point of a larger point.”
The Chilkoot Indian Association petitioned for the name change in early September. The tip of the Chilkat Peninsula was named “Seduction Point” by Captain George Vancouver “because of the designing nature of the Indians whom Lieutenant Joseph Whidbey encountered there on July 16, 1794,” according to the…