Year: 2018

Laxg̱alts’ap (also Laxqalts’ap, and formerly Lachkaltsap or Greenville) is a Nisga’a Village of approximately 474, in the Nass River valley of British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the four main villages in the Nisga’a […]

Gitwinksihlkw formerly Canyon City, is a Nisga’a Village in the Nass River valley of northwestern British Columbia, Canada, near that river’s confluence with the Tseax River. An older spelling is Kitwilluchsilt. It is one of […]

Gitlaxt’aamiks /ɡɪtˈlɑːdəmɪks/ or New Aiyansh /aɪˈænʃ/ is a Nisga’a village about 100 km north of Terrace, in the heart of the Nass River valley, Canada. It is one of four Nisga’a villages. Though it is […]

The Nisga’a, often formerly spelled Nishga and spelled in the Nisga’a language as Nisg̱a’a, are an Indigenous people of Canada in British Columbia. They reside in the Nass River valley of northwestern British Columbia. The […]

The clans were Yeil or Raven; Gooch, or Wolf; and Chaak, or Eagle. Each clan in Tlingit society has its own foundation history. These stories are the private property of the clan in question and […]

There are a few variations of the Tlingit story of how they came to inhabit their lands. All are fairly similar, and one will be detailed here. They vary mostly in the location of the […]

The most well recognized story of is that of the Theft of Daylight, in which Raven steals the stars, the moon, and the sun from Naas-sháki Yéil or Naas-sháki Shaan, the Raven (or Old Man) […]

The history of the Tlingit involves both pre-contact and post-contact historical events and stories. The traditional history involved creation stories, the Raven Cycle and other tangentially related events during the mythic age when spirits freely […]

writing system Until the late 1960s, Tlingit was written exclusively in phonetic transcription in the works of linguists and anthropologists, except for a little known Cyrillic alphabet used for publications by the Russian Orthodox Church. […]

Tlingit has eight vowels, four vowels further distinguished formally by length. However, the length distinction is often in terms of tenseness rather than length, particularly in rapid speech. For the Northern dialect, the dominant spoken […]