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Their language is the Tlingit language (Łingít, pronounced [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]), [6] Tlingit people today belong to several federally recognized Alaska Native tribes including the Angoon Community Association, Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes, [7] Chilkat Indian Village, Chilkoot Indian Association, Craig Tribal Association ...
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 Interior of British Columbia, Canada, and in the southern Yukon Territory. There are two main Tlingit lineages or moieties within Alaska, which are subdivided into a number of clans and houses.
The Stikine people (Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan) are a ḵwáan or regional group of the Tlingit, today based at Wrangell, Alaska. [1] Their historical territory included Wrangell Island and other islands of the Alexander Archipelago , as well as the basin of the lower Stikine River .
The Yakutat Tlingit Tribe is a federally recognized Tlingit Alaska Native tribal entity. [1] [2] Other federally recognized tribes with members of Tlingit heritage include the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes, the Douglas Indian Association, Skagway Village, the Organized Village of Kake, the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, and the Wrangell Cooperative Association.
Yakutat first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as an unincorporated Tlingit-Yakutat village. All 300 residents were listed as Tlingit. [28] In 1890, it reported 308 residents including the populations of the native villages at Dry Bay & Lituya (Bay); 300 were listed as Native, 7 Whites and 1 Creole (Mixed Russian & Native). [29]
Johnson said the tribe never would have demanded compensation so soon after the death. Merriman arrived on Oct. 25 and insisted the tribe provide 400 blankets by noon the next day as punishment for disobedience. When the Tlingits turned over just 81, Merriman attacked, destroying 12 clan houses, smaller homes, canoes and the village’s food ...
Hoonah is the principal village for the Huna Tlingit who originally settled Glacier Bay, Icy Strait, Cross Sound, and the Outer Coast. The four original Tlingit clans present are Chookaneidi, T'aakdeintaan, Wooshkeetaan, and Kaagwaantaan. Numerous other clans migrated to, or married into, the community, as have non-native peoples.
A pair of extremely rare Tlingit masks were given an even rarer price tag on Monday night's episode of "Antiques Roadshow." "The wolf, on a retail basis, I believe would sell in the neighborhood ...