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Chimmesyan

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The Heavens Are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Ethnologies; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity. By Susan Neylan. (Montreal...that broadening our understanding of Tsimshian Christianity is important to our knowledge...Recognizing nineteenth-century Tsimshian Christians as active proponents in a...
The Heavens Are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity is the final product of...manifestation of indigenous Christianity in the Tsimshian culture. There are nine chapters followed...follows: l. The Spiritual Dimensions of Tsimshian Culture 2. "Driftwood" on Their Shores...
FOLK/Dance Git-Hoan Dancers, Traditional Tsimshian dance
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME; 8/13/2005; 604 words ; ...Dancers perform the dances and songs of the Tsimshian people from the Pacific coastal areas...trace their roots and ancestry to the Tsimshian village of Metlakahtta in southeast Alaska...once on the verge of extinction. The Tsimshian, like other coastal peoples such as...
[Transmission difficulties: Franz Boas & Tsimshian mythology]
Magazine article from: Anthropologica; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...collaboration between Franz Boas and his Tsimshian informant Henry Wellington Tate which resulted in Boas's Tsimshian Mythology (1916). Maud compares published...wrote in English, then translated into Tsimshian; and he cribbed from earlier publications...
Reece shares treasures of Tsimshian people.(tradition)
Newspaper article from: Windspeaker; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...museum's exhibition "Treasures of the Tsimshian from the Dundas Collection." Much history...Laxyuubm Ts'myseen, the land of the Tsimshian, encompasses the Skeena River watershed...always an important resource area for the Tsimshian while Metlakada was originally the site...
The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity
Magazine article from: The Canadian Journal of Native Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 645 words ; ...Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity. Montreal: McGill-Queens...how the encounters were influenced by Tsimshian concepts of class, clan, social, and...avoiding a reification of 'traditional' Tsimshian society as well as Christianity, Neylan...
Tsimshian history now offered at school
Newspaper article from: Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 6/25/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...past. Now part of the curriculum is Tsimshian studies, a course designed and taught...the superintendent's response before Tsimshian Studies was adopted. That' s when I...components: subsistence and technology; Tsimshian Society; and European Contact and Metlakatla...
Susan Neylan, The Heavens Are Changing : Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Anthropologie et Societés; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity. Montral et Kingston...goy'pa), perue dans la tradition tsimshian comme un pouvoir transformationnel...cls d'un paradis ternel. Les rituels tsimshian clbrrent ainsi le pouvoir transformationnel...
Tsimshian deliver 'no fish farms' message
Magazine article from: Alberta Sweetgrass; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; The Allied Tsimshian Tribes (ATT) brought just one message...and at the centre of it all was Allied Tsimshian Tribes representative Eugene Bryant...there are no open pen fish farms in Tsimshian territory, although a Pan Fish operation...
Tsimshian prepare for national exhibition
Newspaper article from: Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 12/29/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...her role educating the public on the Tsimshian First Nation. As the program director...traveled to Maryland to compose the Tsimshian display that will form part of an exhibition...nation wants to get across. For the Tsimshian, their concept focused on identity...

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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...coedited with fellow anthropologist Edward Sapir, as well as The Tsimshian, Their Arts and Music, Quebec, Where Ancient France Lingers...habits and customs and those of medieval France, while the Tsimshian people were shown to retain cultural attributes dating from...