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Tlingit
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Tlin·git
/ ˈtling(g)it/
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n.
(pl. same or -gits
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a member of an American Indian people of the coasts and islands of southeastern Alaska and adjacent British Columbia.
2.
the Na-Dene language of this people.
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adj.
of or relating to this people or their language.
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The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Early Republic; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867...centuries the lifestyle and culture of the Tlingit, who occupy the rugged mainland and fjord...a long-lasting relationship with the Tlingit. The establishment of a fort at Sitka...
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The Tlingit Indians of Alaska: respect for nature and ancestors marked the Tlingit culture.(American History)
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic; 9/20/2004; ; 700+ words
; For centuries, the Tlingit (CLINK-it) Indians of Southeastern...themselves to humans as food. The Tlingit showed their gratitude with...away! The Old Way Vanish The Tlingits' first contact with whites...Americans soon followed. The Tlingit built a strong trading economy...
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The Tlingit Indians in Russian America.(The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Arctic; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; THE TLINGIT INDIANS IN RUSSIAN AMERICA, 1741-1867...reconstruction and interpretation of traditional Tlingit society and culture prior to their contact...legends, and intellectual culture of the Tlingit. Although the author relies principally...
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The Tlingit Indians. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The American Indian Quarterly; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...southeast Alaska, went ashore to the Tlingit village of Auk to "avert a supposed murder...Emmons' life-long fascination with Tlingit society and material culture, an interest...Emmons began work on a book about the Tlingit on which he labored sporadically until...
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Memory eternal: Tlingit culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through two centuries.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; KAN, SERGEI. Memory eternal: Tlingit culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity...Memory eternal Sergei Kan examines the Tlingit conversion to Russian Orthodoxy Using...the various factors that influenced the Tlingit's acceptance of Christianity and shaped...
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Will the time ever come? A Tlingit source book. (General).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...THORNTON (eds). Will the time ever come? A Tlingit source book. 159 pp., illus. Fairbanks...book grew out of the first Conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans in 1993 in southeast Alaska. As Tlingit co-editor Hope notes, '[s]ush a...
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Know your place: the organization of Tlingit geographic knowledge.
Magazine article from: Ethnology; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...contrary, as for most Tlingits, the patterns of...constrain not only what Tlingit place names an individual...3) kwaan (a Tlingit term from the verb...or government, Tlingits recognize their...and geography. Tlingits as a group occupied...as Lingit Aani (Tlingit Country) (de Laguna...
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Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The American Indian Quarterly; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; This second volume in the series "Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature" is the first publication of Tlingit oratory recorded in performance, as well as the first of its kind edited by a Tlingit speaking scholar. Nora Marks Dauenhauer, a Native...
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Cultures in collision: cosmology, jurisprudence, and religion in Tlingit territory.(Essay)
Magazine article from: The American Indian Quarterly; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...undergone by the Tlingits in the twentieth...erasing traditional Tlingit culture. I locate...condition of many Tlingits as a type of...passage of ANCSA Tlingit culture has collided...contemporary Tlingits as well as scholars of Tlingit culture in that...
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6th Annual Miss Tlingit & Haida Youth Leadership Pageant
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 5/7/2007; 700+ words
; The Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, a federally...following news release: The Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska...Council) is proud to announce the 2007 Miss Tlingit & Haida Youth Leadership Pageant...
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Tlingit
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...Southeast population, with the Tlingit people being the largest minority...region. EARLY HISTORY The name Tlingit essentially means human beings...being from an animal, since Tlingits believed that there was little...occurred 11,000 years ago by Tlingit people. Haida people, with...
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Juneau: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...Gastineau Channel region, the area was a fishing ground for local Tlingit Native Americans. A mining engineer from Sitka, George Pilz...the site of gold-bearing ore. After Chief Kowee of the Auk Tlingit arrived in Sitka with ore samples from the Gastineau Channel...
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Tsimshian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Alaska. Tsimshian culture, like that of the Haida and the Tlingit, was typical of the Northwest Coast area (see under Natives...repr. 1970); T. Durlach, The Relationship Systems of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian (1928, repr. 1974).
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The Tsimshian
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...such as the Wet'suwet'en and Carrier and to the Haida and Tlingit and Bella Bella on the coast. The first written record of...and the Nisga'a, Gitksan, other Tsimshian, Haida, and Tlingit visited regularly for trade. This period was marked by an...
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Pacific Eskimo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...the Aleut, east to the Copper River, where they border the Tlingit and Eyak. The Pacific Eskimo include the Koniag (Kanagist...Pacific Eskimo traded with as well as fought with the Aleut, Tlingit, and Tanaina. Settlements Traditionally, the Pacific Eskimo...
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