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Eighty per cent of the people living on the lands surrounding Legate creek to the Skeena headwaters are Gitxsan ('People of the River Mist') and archaeological evidence supports a continuous habitation of at least 10,000 years. Their traditional language is called
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wide with many living in traditional Gitxsan territory. Many also live elsewhere in British Columbia, in places such as
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Gitxsan dialect or Gitxsanimax̱, also known as Eastern Gitxsan dialect speaking bands in Gigeenix (eastern region):
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Gitsken dialect or Gitsenimx̱ , also known as Western Gitksan dialect speaking bands in Gyeets (western region):
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from about Legate Creek to the Skeena's headwaters and its surrounding tributaries. Part of the
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Colonialism on Trial: Indigenous Land Rights and the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en Sovereignty Case.
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displaying some traditional and modern Gitksan art and history is located on the
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Cove, John J. (1982) "The Gitksan Traditional Concept of Land Ownership."
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The Gitksan Potlatch: Population Flux, Resource Ownership and Reciprocity.
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Ed. by Margaret Anderson and Marjorie Halpin. Vancouver: U.B.C. Press.
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in Canada whose home territory comprises most of the area known as the
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The aboriginal title rights of the Gitxsan and their neighbours, the
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This article is about the ethnographic group. For the language, see
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Visitors Who Never Left: The Origin of the People of Damelahamid.
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Totem Poles of the Gitksan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia.
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Some of the Gitxsan (Gitksan) villages are, divided by dialect:
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Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs.
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Potlatch at Gitsegukla: William Beynon’s 1945 Field Notebooks.
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society that consists of Frog, Eagle, Wolf, and Fireweed
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Group of indigenous people in British Columbia, Canada
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They were at one time also known as the 108: 101: 456:Gitwangak Indian Band (formerly Kitwanga) 379:Provincial Government of British Columbia 87:Learn how and when to remove this message 682:Tribal Boundaries in the Nass Watershed. 676:Victoria: Royal British Columbia Museum. 369:To date, a treaty agreement between the 50:This article includes a list of general 726:Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History. 532: 492:, artist, carver, activist and educator 264:, although their territory lies in the 716:Monet, Don, and Ardythe Wilson (1992) 507:Neil J. Sterritt, author and activist 190: 720:Philadelphia: New Society Publishers. 516:Nathaniel P. Wilkerson, artist/carver 307:There are approximately 5,000 people 7: 641:Ottawa: Canada, Department of Mines. 486:, hereditary chief and artist/carver 138:Regions with significant populations 56:it lacks sufficient corresponding 25: 467:Notable people of Gitxsan descent 276:, a term which also included the 41: 746:Gitxsan Nation official website 728:Smithers, BC: Creekstone Press. 419:(traditional name: Sik-e-Dakh, 409:(traditional name: Anspa'yaxw, 323:, as well as around the world. 662:vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 3–17. 454:(traditional name: Gitwangak, 399:(traditional name: Gitanmaax, 1: 688:Gibson, John Frederic (1972) 458:) - the Gitksan community of 697:A Death Feast in Dimlahamid. 692:Toronto: Collins Publishers. 651:Bookbuildes of 'Ksan (1977) 598:British Columbia, Order of. 114:Gitxsan on the banks of the 690:A Small and Charming World. 787: 723:Sterritt, Neil J., (2020) 709:Harris, Kenneth B. (1974) 704:Sky Man on the Totem Pole? 699:Vancouver: New Star Books. 672:Duff, Wilson (ed.) (1959) 258:Tsimshianic language group 29: 632:The Downfall of Temlaham. 182: 172: 156: 142: 132: 107: 702:Harris, Christie (1975) 684:Vancouver: U.B.C. Press. 444:(formerly: Kitsegeucla, 246:: means "people of" and 644:Beynon, William (2000) 637:Barbeau, Marius (1929) 630:Barbeau, Marius (1928) 421:Glen Vowell Indian Band 360:Supreme Court of Canada 358:, were affirmed by the 248: 242: 173:Indigenous spirituality 71:more precise citations. 734:Feast: A Gitksan Story 623:Adams, John W. (1973) 547:. Government of Canada 434:(formerly Kitwancool, 381:has not been reached. 732:Russell, Roy (2015) 695:Glavin, Terry (1990) 669:Vancouver: UBC Press. 665:Daly, Richard (2005) 520:Jean Virginia Sampare 178:Related ethnic groups 411:Kispiox Band Council 375:Government of Canada 706:New York: Atheneum. 634:Toronto: MacMillan. 545:www12.statcan.gc.ca 292:Society and culture 268:rather than on the 133:5,680 (2016 census) 104: 600:"Neil J. 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Gitxsan language
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Skeena River
Hazelton
British Columbia
English
Gitxsan
Nisga'a
Gitxsanimaax
Indigenous people
Skeena Country
Skeena River
Tsimshianic language group
Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Interior
Coast
Nisga'a
Tsimshian
Wetʼsuwetʼen
matrilineal
Clans
British Columbia
Terrace
Smithers

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