I know. Biden couldn't sell paper bags to bagmen. The Tlingits did strongly discourage the Russians though. The Russian ships had cannon, which were bad for Tlingit villages. The Tlingits had big, bad ass warriors and rocks, so they would have a big, bad ass warrior swim out to a Russian ship at night with a rock, and bash holes in the hulls.

This saved many Tlingit villages. I was told they had never surrendered, just assimilated.