Skillaka
	
Skillaka was the great chief of the Lynn Canal. Seventeen Chilcats, including Skillaka, arrived at Fort Selkirk on July 10, 1851. Skillaka was a quiet enough fellow, but Stewart was worried as there were few at the fort versus the many Chilkats. Robert Campbell’s //Journal// reports twenty-five coastal traders at Fort Selkirk on the 11th, and they were getting troublesome. They were still at the fort on the 12th and after Eustache and Geordie arrived there was a near fight. The 13th was a day of quarrelling, disputing and fighting but no lives were lost. Three Aunas arrived that day and the Chilcats seized their canoes while in the water and everything in them. The expedition to Fort Yukon arrived back on 3 August 1851 at which time it became clear that Fort Selkirk could be supplied from there, a much shorter and safer supply route.((Llewellyn R. Johnson and Dominique Legros, transcription and editing. Robert Campbell,  //Journal of Occurrences at the Forks of the Lewes and Pelly Rivers May 1848 to September 1852.// Occasional Papers in Yukon History No. 2. Hude Hudan Series, Yukon Government Heritage Branch, 2000: 140.)) The Chilkats were trading British trade goods from the coast and were in direct competition with the trade goods that would now be more easily arriving at Fort Selkirk.

On 25 October 1851, Hanin arrived with his men and eight Indigenous men from the coast. They were not the same tribe as those that arrived in the summer, but they also seemed to want to cause trouble.((Llewellyn R. Johnson and Dominique Legros, transcription and editing. Robert Campbell,  //Journal of Occurrences at the Forks of the Lewes and Pelly Rivers May 1848 to September 1852.// Occasional Papers in Yukon History No. 2. Hude Hudan Series, Yukon Government Heritage Branch, 2000: 140.))