1926  Many an Indian from the remote "Stick" country, above the canyons, brought his fox skins, his mink and bear, from the coast his sea-otter and fur seal, and throwing them down on the floor of Cunningham's store would ask to know their value.
1958  By that time Carmack could speak both the Chilkoot and the Tagish dialects, and was exerting considerable influence over the Stick Indians from the interior or "Stick" country.