Angoon (sometimes formerly spelled Angun, Tlingit: Aangóon) is a city on Admiralty Island, Alaska, United States.

[5] Angoon has a less-rainy climate than most of southeastern Alaska and was valued by the Tlingit for that reason.

In 1878, after the 1867 Alaska Purchase, the North West 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.

The Tlingit villagers had taken white hostages and property and demanded two hundred blankets in compensation from the North West Trading Company following the accidental death of a Tlingit shaman who died in a whaling bomb accident while working on the whaler.

The hostages were released upon the arrival of the naval expedition to Angoon, however Merriman demanded four hundred blankets in tribute and upon the Tlingit delivery of just eighty one blankets, Merriman's forces destroyed the village.

[6][7] After a short time, the North West Trading Company switched to herring processing.

Its climate moderately tempered by the Alaska Current is only slightly more extreme than the north of Scotland.

[10] Angoon first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as the native village of "Augoon" with 420 residents, all members of the Tlingit tribe.