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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Tsimshian mythology, Port Essington, British Columbia, William Duncan, Laxsgiik, Ligeex, Hartley Bay, British Columbia, Eulachon, Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia, William Ridley, Kitsumkalum, Metlakatla, British Columbia, Thomas Crosby, Kitselas First Nation, Robert Cunningham, Banks Island, Robert Tomlinson, Chilkat weaving, Gispwudwada, Wilson Duff, Kitkatla, Gitlaan, Kitasoo/Xaixais First Nation, Annette Island, Laxgibuu, Giluts'aaw, Terry Starr, Kitsumkalum First Nation, Ginaxangiik, William Henry Collison, Gitando, Hartley Bay Indian Band, Gits'iis, Ginadoiks, Klemtu, British Columbia, Gispaxlo'ots, Gitga'ata people, Ganhada, Wright Sound, Metlakatla First Nation, Estevan Group, Gitzaxlaal, Campania Island, Gitwilgyoots, Kitselas, British Columbia, Oweekeno-Kitasoo-Nuxalk Tribal Council, Tsimshian First Nations, Aristazabal Island, Gitxaala Nation, Kitkatla, British Columbia, Kitsumkaylum Indian Reserve No. 1. Excerpt: The Tsimshian (English pronunciation: Sm'algyax: Ts'msyan) are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Tsimshian translates to Inside the Skeena River. Their communities are in British Columbia and Alaska, around Terrace and Prince Rupert and the southernmost corner of Alaska on Annette Island. There are approximately 10,000 Tsimshian. Their culture is matrilineal with a societal structure based on a clan system, properly referred to as a moiety. Early anthropologists and linguistics grouped Gitxsan and Nisga'a as Tsimshian because of linguistic affinities. Under this terminology they were referred to as Coast Tsimshian, even though some communities were not coastal. The three groups identify as separate nations. There are many other ways to spell the name, such as Tsimpshean, Tsimshean, Tsimpshian, and others, but this article will use the spelling "Tsimshian." At one time the...
