the stikine country , also referred to as the stikine district or simply "the stikine", is one of the historical geographic regions of the canadian province of british columbia, located inland from the central alaska panhandle and comprising the basin of the stikine river and its tributaries. the term stikine–iskut (alone or in various combination forms "district", "country", "region") is also fairly common to describe the area, and references the iskut river, the stikine's largest tributary and describable as its south fork.