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    four main languages: Coast Tsimshian, Southern Tsimshian, Nisg̱a’a, and Gitksan. The Tsimshianic languages were included by Edward Sapir in his Penutian...
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    Gitxsan (redirect from Gitksan)
    Gitxsan (also spelled Gitksan and Kitksan) are an Indigenous people in Canada whose home territory comprises most of the area known as the Skeena Country...
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    The Gitxsan language /ˈɡɪtsæn/, or Gitxsanimaax (also rendered Gitksan, Giatikshan, Gityskyan, Giklsan and Sim Algyax), is an endangered Tsimshianic language...
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    police interpreter in the trial of three Gitksans arrested in a near-battle between settler miners and Gitksans at Hazelton, Constance met a telegraphist...
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    to Gitxsan. Indeed, many linguists regard Nisga’a and Gitksan as dialects of a single Nass–Gitksan language. The two are generally treated as distinct languages...
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  • The following are flags used by Indigenous nations of Canada. Graf, Colin (2021-04-19). "Artists in Deshkan Ziibiing showcase their talents in video series...
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    n/a n/a 290 <0.01% South Slavey 950 <0.01% n/a n/a 1,605 0.01% Gitxsan (Gitksan) 880 <0.01% n/a n/a 1,180 <0.01% North Slave (Hare) 765 <0.01% n/a n/a...
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  • Gilaki Iran (Gilan) Islam → Twelver Shi’ism Gitxsan Tsimshianic → Nass–Gitksan → Gitxsan Canada (Skeena Country) Native American religion Gnawas Morocco...
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    Nadleh Whuten Saik'uz Stellat'en Takla Tl'azt'en Ts'il Kaz Koh Wet'suwet'en Gitksan Tribal Services Society (Hazelton) Gitanmaax Gitanyow Glen Vowell Kispiox...
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    0.01% Also known as Dene Yatıé or Dene Zhatıé, or Dené Dháh. Gitxsan (Gitksan) 880 <0.01% n/a n/a 1,180 <0.01% North Slavey 765 <0.01% n/a n/a 1,065...
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  • italics – inherited matrilineally. Examples include the Cherokee, Choctaw, Gitksan, Haida, Hopi, Iroquois, Lenape, Navajo and Tlingit of North America; the...
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  • Labrador from CFB Goose Bay. He also made On Indian Land, a film with the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en of northern British Columbia, and Time Immemorial, the...
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  • Rigsby & John Ingram (1990) "Obstruent Voicing and Glottalic Obstruents in Gitksan". International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 251–263...
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    William Ridley Anglican Robert Tomlinson, Anglican Tsimshian mythology Gitksan language Nisga'a language Coast Tsimshian There are many other ways to...
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    presentation of native people and Canadian landscapes. After visiting the Gitksan village of Kitwancool in the summer of 1928, Carr became captivated by...
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    261-266. Tsimshian Peoples: Southern Tsimshian, Coast Tsimshian, Nishga, and Gitksan. Marjorie M. Halpin & Margaret Seguin. Pages 267-284. Tsimshian of British...
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    Kispiox is a Gitxsan (often known also as Gitksan, due to eastern and western dialects) village of approximately 550 in the Kispiox Valley, at the confluence...
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  • the lands and resources available to them. Chamberlin (2003) writes of a Gitksan elder from British Columbia confronted by a government land-claim: "If...
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    for example, between a Killer Whale and a Raven or Eagle. The Gitxsan or Gitksan, meaning "people of the Skeena River", were known with the Nisga'a as Interior...
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    Nadleh Whuten Saik'uz Stellat'en Takla Tl'azt'en Ts'il Kaz Koh Wet'suwet'en Gitksan Tribal Services Society (Hazelton) Gitanmaax Gitanyow Glen Vowell Kispiox...
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    numbers of students from neighbouring tribes, including the Sekani and Gitksan. As with most other residential schools, former students have charged that...
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  • among the Minangkabau culture of West Sumatra, the Nakhi of China, the Gitksan of British Columbia, the Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee), the Hopi...
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    was an error to "[amalgamate] the individual claims brought by the 51 Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en Houses into two collective claims, one by each nation...
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    Gitksan shaman with rattle...
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    Skaist Mountain, Skaist River Skeena River – from "X'san", Tsimshian (Gitksan) for "River of Mist" Skihist Mountain and Skihist Provincial Park Skidegate...
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  • Duff and his assistant curator Michael Kew brokered an agreement with the Gitksan community of Kitwancool (a.k.a. Gitanyow), arranging for some of the village's...
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    Potawatomi) Morgan Toney (Mi'kmaq) Billy Thunderkloud & the Chieftones (Gitksan) Terry Uyarak (Inuk) Laura Vinson (Métis) This includes throat singing...
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    Nadleh Whuten Saik'uz Stellat'en Takla Tl'azt'en Ts'il Kaz Koh Wet'suwet'en Gitksan Tribal Services Society (Hazelton) Gitanmaax Gitanyow Glen Vowell Kispiox...
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    moving to the Gitksan village of Kitwanga well up the Skeena River from Metlakatla. In 1888 they formed a new non-sectarian Christian Gitksan village nearby...
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    /l/ (and their glottalized counterparts). (Some writers will follow the Gitksan orthographic practice of writing the syllabic sonorants as /im/, /in/ and...
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