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  1. Tlingit (disambiguation)

    The Tlingit people , or Klinkit , are an indigenous people of Alaska. Tlingit may also refer to Tlingit language Tlingit alphabet See also Tlingit clans Tlingit cuisine The Telengits , of Siberia dab de Tlingit nl Tlingit ...   more details



  1. Tlingit people

    About the Alaskan Native group the Siberian people Telengit Otheruses Tlingit disambiguation Infobox Ethnic group group Tlingit image Image taku.jpg 250px br Chief Anotklosh of the Taku people Taku Tribe ... language English , Tlingit language Tlingit related The Tlingit IPAc en icon k l k t or IPAc ... is Ling t , ref name lingit http www.tlingitlanguage.org Ling t Yoo X at ngi The Tlingit .... A Voyage to America 1783 1786. Kingston Limestone Press, 1981. ref The Tlingit are a matrilineal ..., known as the Inland Tlingit, inhabits the far northwestern part of the province of British Columbia and the southern Yukon Territory in Canada . Territory Image Tlingit map.png thumb left Tlingit and neighboring peoples The greatest territory historically occupied by the Tlingit extended from the Portland ... just southeast of the Copper River Alaska Copper River delta. ref de Laguna, 203 28. ref The Tlingit ... just before the first encounters with European explorers. Inland, the Tlingit occupied areas along ... River Taku , and Stikine River Stikine rivers. With regular travel up these rivers, the Tlingit developed .... From this regular travel and trade, a few relatively large populations of Tlingit settled around ... the headwaters of the Taku River. Delineating the modern territory of the Tlingit is complicated because ... Taku River Tlingit , ref http www.trtfn.com Taku River Tlingit ref Teslin, Yukon Teslin Tlingit Council ... Interior Tlingit populations. ref name lingit The territory occupied by the modern Tlingit ... ownership rather than bounded reservations administered by tribal governments. The corporation in the Tlingit region is Sealaska Corporation , which serves the Tlingit as well as the Haida people Haida and Tsimshian in Alaska. ref http www.sealaska.com page home Sealaska Corporation ref Tlingit people ... complexities, the territory historically occupied by the Tlingit can be reasonably designated as their modern homeland, and Tlingit people today envision the land from around Yakutat, Alaska ...   more details



  1. Tlingit alphabet

    The Tlingit language has been recorded in a number of writing systems orthographies over the two hundred years since European contact. The first transcriptions of Tlingit were done by Russian Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox ministers, hence they were in the Cyrillic script . A hiatus in writing Tlingit ... anthropologists began recording Tlingit in various transcription linguistics linguistic ... for Tlingit began to spread in the 1960s. This orthography, now somewhat modified by native ... Center developed another orthography for writing Interior Tlingit. Since the spread of e mail among the Tlingit population a new orthography has developed by consensus, based on the Naish Story orthography ... An example of the Cyrillic Tlingit alphabet can be found in the text http www.asna.ca alaska tlingit ... , Tlingit Cyrillic ... a one to one correspondence with Tlingit phonemes nor does it record tone, but a Tlingit speaker ... Tlingit. This has been done at least once, but the population familiar with both the Cyrillic script and the Tlingit language is rather small, thus no such script is likely to find serious use. Linguistic ... came a number of linguistic transcriptions of Tlingit. Most were constructed in the Franz Boas Boasian tradition, one used by Boas himself in his rudimentary Tlingit grammar published in 1917. The other most widespread transcriptions were the one used extensively by John Swanton in his Tlingit Myths and Texts and The Tlingit Language , and the one used by Frederica de Laguna in her Story of a Tlingit Village and Under Mount Saint Elias . The recent publication of George T. Emmons s The Tlingit ... did not use any regular transcription when writing Tlingit words and phrases, despite requests from anthropologists of the day. His idiosyncratic and inconsistent recordings of Tlingit were mostly ... to puzzle linguists and Tlingit speakers alike. The Naish Story orthography Constance Naish ...   more details



  1. Culture of the Tlingit

    Orphan date December 2010 Refimprove date July 2007 The culture of the Tlingit people Tlingit , an Indigenous ... to easily exploited rich resources. In Tlingit culture a heavy emphasis is placed upon family and kinship ... and spirituality are incorporated in nearly all areas of Tlingit culture, with even everyday objects .... Image Casco y collera de lobo tlingit M. Am rica, Madrid 01.jpg thumb 220px right 18th century Tlingit art A helmet representing a wolf head Museo de Am rica Madrid Museum of the Americas , Madrid , Spain . Kinship The Tlingit kinship system, like most Northwest Coast societies, is based on a matrilineal ... elders but reinforced by modern associations between Tlingit and their Tsimshian and Haida people ..., however in the last century this system began to break down as a result of violent suppression of Tlingit ..., as well as marriages with non Tlingit people. No word in Tlingit refers to moiety, since referring .... In colloquial English the term side is often used among the Tlingit since moiety is a specialized term unfamiliar to most. The moieties provide the primary dividing line across Tlingit society .... Clan sizes vary widely, and some clans are found throughout all the Tlingit lands whereas others are found only in one small cluster of villages. The Tlingit clans Tlingit clan functions as the main property owner in the culture, thus almost all formal property amongst the Tlingit belongs to clans ... of violent suppression of Tlingit culture and traditions , many young urban Tlingit people are uncertain ..., and as such many Tlingit children have very pleasant memories of their fathers as generous ... constructed Tlingit house in Wrangell, Alaska Beneath the clans are houses h t , smaller ... house was led by a chief, in Tlingit h t s aat house master , an elder male or less often ... to an elected city mayor in Tlingit, although the traditional position was not elected and did ... and Tlingit in early history, since a particular chief could only hold sway over members of his ...   more details



  1. Tlingit language

    Infobox language name Tlingit nativename Ling t pronunciation IPA k t ethnicity Tlingit people Tlingit ... speakers 1400 date 2000 date 2001 ref e16 script Tlingit alphabet Latin script iso2 tli iso3 tli notice IPA The Tlingit language IPAc en icon k l k t Tlingit Ling t IPA ath k t Maddieson et al. 2001 is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada . It is a branch of the Na Den languages Na Den language family. Tlingit is very endangered language endangered ... the Tlingit language and its culture. Russian Orthodox missionaries were the first to develop a written version of Tlingit, using the Cyrillic script to record and translate it, when the Russian ... The history of Tlingit is poorly known, mostly because there is no written record until the first ... River Alaska Copper River delta and Tongass Tlingit near the Portland Canal are all the more striking for the distances that separate them, both geographic and linguistic. Classification Tlingit is currently ... Tlingit and Haida language Haida , but the debate over Na Den gradually excluded Haida from the discussion ... with Tlingit. The Haida linguist John Enrico has recently presented 2004 new arguments which have reopened the debate. Geographic distribution The Tlingit language is distributed from near the mouth ... where the Tlingit language is endemic is contained within the modern borders of Alaska . The exception is an area known as Inland Tlingit , which extends up the Taku River and into northern ... at the end of the Chilkoot Trail Jilkhoot . Otherwise Tlingit is not found in Canada . Tlingit legend tells that groups of Tlingit once inhabited the Stikine River Stikine , Nass River Nass , and Skeena ... states&mode lang tops&lang id 866 Tlingit territory , Modern Language Association ref Dialects Tlingit ... Haida K aayk aani . The Inland Tlingit dialect is spoken in Canada around Atlin Lake and Teslin Lake . The Tongass Tlingit dialect was once spoken in the Cape Fox area south of Ketchikan, Alaska ...   more details



  1. History of the Tlingit

    Refimprove date July 2007 The history of the Tlingit people Tlingit involves both pre contact and post ... from animal to human and back, and the migration story of coming to Tlingit lands, clan histories More ... story and the Raven Cycle Stories about Raven are unique in Tlingit culture in that though they technically ... moiety , most are openly and freely shared by any Tlingit no matter their clan affiliation. They also ..., but some are serious and impart a sense of Tlingit morality and ethics, and others belong to specific ... Tlingit grandparents. Raven cries incessantly until the Old Man gives him the Box of Stars to pacify ... he opens the box to show them and then it flies up into the sky where it has been ever since. The Tlingit migration There are a few variations of the Tlingit story of how they came to inhabit their lands ... one presented here involves some interesting relationship explanations between the Tlingit ... in the Tlingit cultural system, such that sharing a story without the proper permission of its owners is a breach of Tlingit law. However, the stories of the Tlingit people as a whole, the creation myths ..., and thus may be shared without particular restriction. It is however important to the Tlingit that the details ... the glacier and came into Ling t Aan , the rich and bountiful land that became the home of the Tlingit people. These people became the first Tlingits. Another theory of Tlingit migration is that of the Beringia ... people are passive. Tlingit culture, being the fiercest among the coastal nations due to their northernmost ... trading alliances. Tlingit traders were the middlemen bringing Russian goods inland over the Chilkoot Trail to the Yukon, and on into Northern British Columbia. As the Tlingit people began marrying interior people, their culture became the established norm. Soon the Tlingit clan and political structure, as well as customs and beliefs dominated all other interior culture. To this day, Tlingit regalia ... interior culture. The Athapascan way of life is now embedded with the Tlingit people s lifestyle ...   more details



  1. Tlingit clans

    The Tlingit clans of Southeast Alaska , in the United States, are one of the indigenous cultures within Alaska. The Tlingit people also live in the Northwest British Columbia Interior Interior of British Columbia , Canada , and in the southern Yukon Yukon Territory . There are two main Tlingit lineages or Kinship Lineages, clans, phratries, moieties, and matrimonial sides moieties within Alaska, which are subdivided into a number of clans and houses. The Tlingit people The Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska have two Kinship Lineages, clans, phratries, moieties, and matrimonial sides moieties otherwise known as descent groups in their society, each of which is divided into a number of clans . Each clan has its own history, songs, and totems , and each forms a social network of extended families which functions as a political unit in Tlingit society. The two moieties of the Tlingit society are the Raven Y il and Eagle Wolf Ch aak u G u ooch . The latter has two names because its primary crest differs between the north and the south regions of Tlingit territory, probably due to influence from the neighboring tribes of Haida people Haida and Tsimshian . Each moiety is further subdivided into clans, and each clan is subdivided into houses. The Tlingit clans have names whose meaning typically reflects the foundation story of the clan. The clans are usually referred to in English by the name of their primary crest, such as Deisheetaan being called Beaver Clan . This is not accurate since ... it. Clans In the list below the Tlingit name of the clan is given with its primary crest in parentheses ... K u aa u x u oos.hittaan Nei u x u . di Eagle Beaver Halibut See also Ganhada Laxgibuu History of the Tlingit References Emmons, George Thornton 1991 . The Tlingit Indians . Volume 70 in Anthropological ... TlingitMap Traditional Tlingit Country &ndash Map and Tribal List . Juneau, Alaska Alaska Native Knowledge Network. Category Tlingit ...   more details



  1. Tlingit cuisine

    Unreferenced date July 2007 The food of the Tlingit , an Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast indigenous people from Alaska , British Columbia , and the Yukon , is a central part of Tlingit culture, and the land is an abundant provider. A saying amongst the Tlingit is that when the tide ..., eating nothing but beach food is considered contemptible among the Tlingit, and a sign of poverty ... some variety to the diet, the Tlingit harvest many other resources for food besides what they easily ... Pinniped seal and game are both close seconds. Nutrition A particular problem with the Tlingit ... A, and vitamin C, are lacking in meat and fish. To ensure that such essentials are available, the Tlingit ... vitamin E and the B complexes. Today, most Tlingit eat a number of packaged products as well as imported ... crackers gh atl , and both have specific terms in Tlingit that are adapted from now uneaten foods Fritillaria camschatcensis Kamchatka Lily and a type of tree fungus . Beach seafood The tlingit gathered ... boiled to a delicious broth that was good for colds. Salmon The primary staple of the Tlingit diet, salmon ... on the shore doing the cleaning. Harvesting Tlingit constructed fish traps in a few ways, depending ... used in the early twentieth century. On larger rivers, Tlingit built a weir that either spanned the entire ... means of trapping salmon severely decreased the salmon population, and once the Tlingit harvested ... of salmon are harvested, and the Tlingit language clearly differentiates them. Certain species are considered ... the processing is all performed on site. Tlingit still practice traditional methods of harvesting ... other foodstuffs as well. Though some Tlingit can identify the preparer of smoked salmon by the knife ... but for smoking fish, the Tlingit cared little for the summer house s habitability, as noted by early ... houses. Commercial and subsistence fishing Many Tlingit are involved in the Alaskan commercial salmon ... important foods in the Tlingit diet. They are small fish that return in enormous schools to spawn ...   more details



  1. Tlingit noun

    unreferenced date November 2008 Like noun s in many Native American languages, the Tlingit language Tlingit ... closed, i.e. must have a core syntactic Valency linguistics valency of zero Tlingit has ... 4 airplane , lit. that which they fly on their surfaces Thus to cope with nouns in Tlingit it is necessary ... be left unanalyzed. Possession Nouns in Tlingit can be divided into two open classes, Possession linguistics ... a possessed relationship with another noun, both syntactically and semantically. In Tlingit the names ... nouns in Tlingit. It is thus syntactically inadmissible for a name to be possessed by another noun ... in colloquial English. However, in Tlingit such a construction is impossible, so Anis ... process in Tlingit, and for some speakers may apply across word and phrase boundaries as well ... are deaspirated when suffixed this is a regular process in all Tlingit suffixation that is usually ... situations in Tlingit morphology a similar process has occurred subsequent to the devolvement ..., alienable and inalienable nouns. Alienability In Tlingit, nouns are subject to the concept of alienability grammar alienability . Most nouns in Tlingit are alienable, i.e., they may be used alone ... cases Nominal cases in Tlingit are designated by postpositions as with most SOV languages, however they usually behave morphologically like suffixes. Case in Tlingit is a somewhat problematic feature ... is called the absolutive argument . Note that Tlingit lacks an absolutive case, instead the absolutive ... of . Consider colspan 4 Ling txh haa sateey ling t Ling t xh haa sa tee i ling t Tlingit small PERT small 1 small PL.OBJ small s, D, I be small REL small person people colspan 4 We who are Tlingit ... xh inaxh waa s duwas akw? Ling t xh i naxh waa s 0 du ya s a kw Tlingit mouth small PROL small how ... colspan 5 How is it called in Tlingit? lit. How is it named by the Tlingit mouth? Allative The allative ... in Tlingit are derived from verb stems and roots. There are a number of different processes by which ...   more details



  1. Teslin Tlingit Council

    The Teslin Tlingit Council TTC is a First Nation government in the central Yukon in Canada, located in Teslin, Yukon ref http pse5 esd5.ainc inac.gc.ca fnp Main Search FNMain.aspx?BAND NUMBER 499&lang eng Indian and Northern Affairs Canada First Nation Detail ref along the Alaska Highway and Teslin Lake . The language originally spoken by the Teslin is Tlingit language Tlingit . Together with the Taku River Tlingit First Nation in British Columbia , they cmoprise the Inland Tlinkit . The Teslin Tlingit Council was one of the first four Yukon First Nations to sign a Yukon Land Claims land claims agreement in 1992. Indian Reserves GeoGroupTemplate Indian Reserves administered by the Teslin Tlingit Council are ref http pse5 esd5.ainc inac.gc.ca fnp Main Search FNReserves.aspx?BAND NUMBER 499&lang eng Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Reserves Settlements Villages Detail ref Nisutlin Indian Reserve No. 14 , 83.90 ha. small coord 60 13 00 N 132 34 00 W small ref cite cgndb id KAIGG title Nisutlin 14 ref Nisutlin Bay Indian Reserve No. 15 , 0.5  km SE of Teslin, 50 ha. small coord 60 12 25 N 132 34 13 W small ref cite cgndb id KAEQT title Teslin Bay ref this IR is not in CGNDB, so used the bay of the same name, which is presumably the same location Teslin Post Indian Reserve No. 13 , 27.60 ha. small coord 60 10 00 N 132 40 00 W small ref cite cgndb id KAIGH title Teslin Post 13 ref References reflist External links http www.theyukon.ca dbs cyfn dyncat.cfm?catid 86 Teslin Tlingit Council page on the Council of Yukon First Nations web site http www.ttc teslin.com Teslin Tlingit Council homepage First Nations in the Yukon Category First Nations in Yukon Category First Nation governments in Yukon Category Tlingit NorthAm native stub canada stub ...   more details



  1. Philosophy and religion of the Tlingit

    Orphan date December 2010 Refimprove date July 2007 The philosophy and religion of the Tlingit , although ... whose basic axioms shaped the way all Tlingit people Tlingit people viewed and interacted with the world ... diseases including smallpox , many Tlingit people converted to Eastern Orthodox Church Orthodox .... 1999. Memory eternal Tlingit culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through two centuries. P.xix xxii ref Russian Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox missionaries had translated their liturgy into the Tlingit language. After the introduction of Christianity , the Tlingit belief system began to erode ..., contemporary Tlingit reconcile Christianity and the traditional culture. ref Kan Sergei. http books.google.com books?id zQAa1thUUh8C&lpg PA42&dq Tlingit 20elders 20christianity&client firefox a&pg PA42 v onepage&q &f false Shamanism and Christianity Modern Day Tlingit Elders Look at the Past. Klass ... Of Religion. Boulder, CO Westview Press, 1999 42. ISBN 978 0 8133 2695 5. ref Dualism The Tlingit ... water and the dark forest which surrounds their daily lives in the Tlingit homeland. Water serves as a primary means of transportation, and as a source of most Tlingit foods. Its surface is flat and broad ... and reliable place, and thus represents the apparent forces of the Tlingit world. In contrast, the dense ... the hidden forces in the Tlingit world. Another series of dichotomies in Tlingit thought are wet ... warm, dry shelter. The traditional Tlingit house, with its solid Thuja plicata redcedar construction and blazing central fireplace, represented an ideal Tlingit conception of warmth, hardness, and dryness ... The Tlingit divide the living being into several components khaa daa body, physical being ... form an essential part of the Tlingit spiritual belief system. Bones are the hard and dry ... because that number has spiritual significance in Tlingit culture. The bones of a cremated ... metaphysical energy without which a thing is not alive however in Tlingit thought this can ...   more details



  1. Bible translations into Tlingit

    A portion of the Bible, Matthew s gospel, was first translated into Tlingit language Tlingit of Alaska by Ivan Nadezhdin of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1859. Although used in Churches, this was never published. According to Dr. Michael E. Krauss Michael Krauss it is a hardly readable, slavishly literal translation, and with a writing system so faulty that the spread of literacy would have been severely impeded even if there had been good translations ref Alaska Native Languages in Russian America, By Dr. Michael Krauss. In Russian America, the Forgotten Frontier , Edited by Smith and Barnett. Pg 210 ref . Nadezhdin also translated the sections from John s gospel that were used for Orthodox Easter liturgy. Constance Naish and Gillian Story, both of Wycliffe Bible Translators , translated John s gospel into Tlingit this was published in 1969 as Dik e ank woo doo y et d t John ch kawshixidee yooxu tunk . A few selected verses from both testaments were translated for their hymnal Utk uheenee X usheex ee. They also produced a 17 page booklet The Brass serpent and other stories , containing stories from the Old Testament. class wikitable align center width 25 Translation Gospel of John John 3 16 align center Naish Story 1969 Dik e An woo ch nux woosix n y h ling t nee. Uh uy h tl inux doo j e y i yuteeyee doo Y et h hdei uh jeewun . Lduk t adoo s h doo ek uh h enee, tl il koot kei kw g usg et l yun shoowjix inee x us ikw o. h doo j e y i kw g ut e. References reflist DEFAULTSORT Bible Translations Tlingit Category Bible translations by language Tlingit NorthAm native stub na lang stub ...   more details



  1. Taku River Tlingit First Nation

    Unnamed Indian Reserve 10 source BCGNIS small See also History of the Tlingit List of First Nations governments in British Columbia Teslin Tlingit Council in Yukon References reflist External links http trtfn.yikesite.com Taku River Tlingit First Nation website Category First Nations governments in British Columbia Category Atlin Country Category First Nation governments in Yukon Category Tlingit ...   more details



  1. Stikine people

    The Stikine people are a kwaan of the Tlingit people Tlingit , today based at Wrangell, Alaska and whose territory included the basin of the lower Stikine River . See also Taku River Tlingit Chief Shakes Alaska stub NorthAm native stub Category Tlingit ...   more details



  1. Sergei Kan

    Sergei A. Kan is an United States American anthropologist known for his research with and writings on the Tlingit people Tlingit people of southeast Alaska , focusing on the potlatch and on the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tlingit communities. Kan is of Russian Jewish origin and came to the U.S. in 1974. He did undergraduate studies at Boston University and received his master s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago , where he was a student of the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson . Kan also cites the influence of Nancy Munn , George W. Stocking, Jr. , and John Comaroff John and Jean Comaroff . He began fieldwork with the Tlingit in Sitka, Alaska , in 1979 and in 1980 was adopted by Charlotte Young Tlaktoow 1916 1982 into the Kaagwaantaan clan. In 1991, he was adopted by Mark Jacobs into the Tlingit Dakl aweid clan. He was an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan before going to Dartmouth College , where he was granted tenure in 1993. Bibliography Kan, Sergei 1983 Words That Heal the Soul Analysis of the Tlingit Potlatch Oratory. Arctic Anthropology, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 47 59. Kan, Sergei 1985 Russian Orthodox Brotherhoods among the Tlingit ... 1986 The Nineteenth Century Tlingit Potlatch A New Perspective. American Ethnologist, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 191 212. Kan, Sergei 1989 Cohorts, Generations, and Their Culture The Tlingit Potlatch in the 1980s. Anthropos, vol. 84, nos. 4 6. Kan, Sergei 1989 Symbolic Immortality The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth ... Missionaries and the Tlingit Indians of Alaska, 1880 1890. In New Dimensions in Ethnohistory, ed. by B ... Shamanism and Christianity Modern Day Tlingit Elders Look at the Past. Ethnohistory, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 363 387. Kan, Sergei 1996 Clan Mothers to Godmothers Tlingit Women and Russian Orthodox Christianity, 1840 1940. Ethnohistory, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 613 641. Kan, Sergei 1999 Memory Eternal Tlingit ... Press. Kan, Sergei 2001 Friendship, Family, and Fieldwork One Anthropologist s Adoption by Two Tlingit ...   more details



  1. Teslin

    Teslin is the anglicized form of the name of the Deisleen w an Big Sinew Tribe of the Tlingit people Tlingit people, one of two w an that are today incorporated as the Teslin Tlingit Council government in the Yukon Territory of northern Canada. As a term it may also refer to Geography Teslin Lake , a lake spanning the British Columbia Yukon border the Teslin River , a river feeding and draining Teslin Lake Little Teslin Lake , a lake near the Teslin River in Yukon, Canada the Teslin Plateau , a landform in the region of Teslin Lake and the Teslin River Teslin Mountain , a mountain in Yukon, Canada Settlements Teslin, Yukon , a village in Yukon, Canada Teslin Post Indian Reserve No. 13 , an Indian Reserve of the Teslin Tlingit Council in Yukon, Canada Teslin Lake, Yukon , an unincorporated area in Yukon, Canada Teslin River, Yukon , an unincorporated area in Yukon, Canada Little Teslin Lake, Yukon , an uincorporated area in Yukon, Canada Teslin Crossing , an unincorporated area in Yukon, Canada Teslin Lake Indian Reserve No. 7 , an Indian Reserve of the Taku River Tlingit government in British Columbia Teslin Lake Indian Reserve No. 9 , an Indian Reserve of the Taku River Tlingit government in British Columbia Other Teslin Airport Teslin Water Aerodrome Teslin material See also Teslim disambig fr Teslin ...   more details



  1. File:Soulcatchertlingit.jpg

    Summary A Tlingit soulcatcher made by Heendei. Bear bone & abalone. author kabuto 7 Licensing PD self date April 2009 Copy to Wikimedia Commons bot Fbot priority true ...   more details



  1. Nathan Jackson

    Nathan Jackson may refer to Nathan Jackson footballer , English footballer Nathan Jackson artist , American Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson The Magnificent Seven hndis Jackson, Nathan ...   more details



  1. Sitka Tribe of Alaska

    The Sitka Tribe of Alaska is the federally recognized tribal government for more than 4,000 Alaska Natives living in or near Sitka City and Borough, Alaska Sitka in the U.S. state of Alaska . The tribal government was created through the passage of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. The Tlingit language name for the Sitka people is Sheet k w an . External links http www.sitkatribe.org Official website Category Alaska Native tribes Category Sitka City and Borough, Alaska Category Tlingit US gov stub NorthAm native stub hr Sitka ...   more details



  1. Alienability (linguistics)

    Alienability as a grammatical concept in some languages, such as Tlingit noun Tlingit , Rama language Rama , or Paama language Paama , related to the concept of possession linguistics possession . A noun is called inalienable noun , if it must always have a possessed case possessed relationship with another noun. The two nouns are said to be in the inalienable possession relationship. An alienable noun may be either used alone or may be possessed by another noun, i.e., be in an alienable possession relationship. References reflist Category Grammar ...   more details



  1. Richard Dauenhauer

    Y s, for Healing Our Spirit Tlingit Oratory. Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 2. Seattle University of Washington Press. with Nora Marks Dauenhauer eds. 1994 Haa Kusteey , Our Culture Tlingit Life Stories. Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 3. Seattle University of Washington Press. cite book url http books.google.com books?id yFa4anGH6U0C&printsec frontcover&dq Russians in Tlingit ... 20Sitka 2C 201802 20And 201804&f false title Russians in Tlingit America editors Nora Dauenhauer ...   more details



  1. Nora Marks Dauenhauer

    Current Press 1990 The Battles of Sitka, Alaska Sitka , 1802 and 1804, from the Tlingit, Russian ... Shuk , Our Ancestors Tlingit Oral Narratives. Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 1. Seattle ... Spirit Tlingit Oratory. Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 2. Seattle University of Washington Press. with Richard Dauenhauer eds. 1994 Haa Kusteey , Our Culture Tlingit Life Stories. Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 3. Seattle University of Washington Press. cite book url http books.google.com books?id yFa4anGH6U0C&printsec frontcover&dq Russians in Tlingit America The Battles of Sitka ... 201804&f false title Russians in Tlingit America editors Nora Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Lydia ..., Alaska Category Tlingit people Category Writers from Alaska US poet 1920s stub NorthAm native bio ...   more details



  1. Chutine, British Columbia

    Chutine , originally Chutine Landing , ref BCGNIS 53098 Chutine Landing settlement ref is an abandoned locality and is a former settlement at the confluence of the Chutine River Chutine and Stikine River s ref BCGNIS 53099 Chutine locality ref in the Stikine Country of northwestern British Columbia , Canada . The name Chutine means half people in the Tahltan language , as the community here was a mixture of Tahltan and Tlingit people Tlingit peoples. ref BCGNIS 5988 Chutine River ref References reflist BritishColumbiaInterior geo stub FirstNations stub coord 57 40 00 N 131 35 00 W display title Category Populated places on the Stikine River Category Stikine Country Category Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia Category Tahltan Category Tlingit ...   more details



  1. Killisnoo, Alaska

    Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Image AKMap doton Angoon.png right Location of Angoon, Alaska Killisnoo is an unincorporated area unincorporated community on Killisnoo Island in the Hoonah Angoon Census Area, Alaska Hoonah Angoon Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska , near Angoon, Alaska Angoon which is on Admiralty Island . Killisnoo is located at Coord 57 30 N 134 34 W region US . History Killisnoo Island has long been inhabited by Tlingit people Tlingit people. In the late 1800s, the Northwest Trading Company built a fish processing plant at Killisnoo and many Tlingit people Tlingit moved from nearby Angoon and other areas to Killisnoo to work at the plant. The plant was destroyed in a fire in 1928 and most of the residents left Killisnoo. Like Angoon, Killisnoo has a less rainy climate than most of southeastern Alaska, which is why Killisnoo is now the home of a fishing and hunting establishment by the name of Whaler s Cove Lodge. Hoonah Angoon Census Area, Alaska Category Populated places in Hoonah Angoon Census Area, Alaska Category Unincorporated communities in Alaska HoonahAngoonAK geo stub fi Killisnoo ...   more details



  1. Sheet'ká ?wáan Naa Kahídi

    The Sheet k w an Naa Kah di is a performance venue and meeting space modeled after a Tlingit people Tlingit clan house in Sitka , Alaska . Some translate the building s name to The House of the Sitka People. It is also known as the Community House. It is the home of the largest hand carved house screen in Southeast Alaska. ref name cityprofile cite web last first authorlink coauthors title Sheet ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi Tribal Community House work publisher cityprofile.com date url http www.cityprofile.com alaska sheetka kwaan naa kahidi tribal community house.html format doi accessdate 21 October 2011 ref It is built on the location of the former school for Native children in Sitka. ref name cityprofile Every summer the Naa Kah di Dancers use the house to perform for tourists, singing and drumming songs that tell stories of Tlingit legend. The building is owned by Sitka Tribe of Alaska . References reflist coord 57.0502 135.3388 type landmark region US AK display title DEFAULTSORT Sheet ka waan Naa Kahidi Category Alaska culture Category Buildings and structures in Sitka City and Borough, Alaska Category Houses in Alaska Category Tlingit Category Visitor attractions in Sitka City and Borough, Alaska Alaska stub ...   more details




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