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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 ...
List of federally recognized tribes in the United States, Lower 48; List of federally recognized tribes by state, Lower 48; List of Indian reservations in the United States; List of historical Indian reservations in the United States; State-recognized tribes in the United States; List of organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes
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.
Prince of Wales Island is the homeland of the indigenous Tlingit people. Tlingit word xʼaaxʼ aani, which translates to "crabapple country". [citation needed] The Tlingit name for the island is Taan, meaning "sea lion". [5] The island is traditional Tlingit territory. The Haida migrated into the area in the late 18th century.
The original settlers in the Yakutat area are believed [citation needed] to have been Eyak-speaking people from the Copper River area. Tlingit people migrated into the region and the Eyak were assimilated into the tribe before the arrival of Europeans in Alaska. Yakutat was only one of a number of Tlingit and mixed Tlingit-Eyak settlements in ...
There are also three kwaans of the Tlingit people: Taku Kwaan, Yenyeidi, wolf clan "own" Taku watershed, originating from yen hidi, 12 miles s/e of Juneau, a coastal clan, NOT inland in British Columbia, the Áa Tlein Kwáan ("Big Lake Tribe", today organized as the Taku River Tlingit First Nation) and the Deisleen Kwáan ("Big Sinew Tribe ...
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 (Tlingit: Xunaa or Gaaw Yat’aḵ Aan) is a largely Tlingit community on Chichagof Island, located in Alaska's panhandle in the southeast region of the state. It is 30 miles (48 km) west of Juneau, across the Alaskan Inside Passage.