22:
189:
reported in 1938 that the Giluts'aaw was at that point in the situation of having two chiefs. One, Niisnawa, was likely, she wrote, to see his line die out with him as he had no heirs. The second, Niisłgümiik, i.e. Victoria Young's nephew, Garfield considered a "subchief" to
Niisnawa.
168:, she bore no children and after her death in 1898 the name Niisłgümiik was bequeathed to a brother's son of a different clan whom she had adopted into the Gispwudwada. This person may be Herbert Swanson, whom the anthropologist
133:
fort was established there. When the village around the fort was laid out into tribal "neighborhoods," the Giluts'aaw were the one tribe situated on the shore east of the fort rather than to the west.
118:
means literally "people of the inside" (referring to their traditional village site behind a small island on a slough along the Skeena). Their traditional territory is the area around
160:(Killerwhale clan) name-title Niisłgümiik of the House of Niisłgümiik, Giluts'aaw's leading royal house, when no male heirs were available. However, despite marrying a holder of the
51:
182:
photographed what remained of a "Prince of the
Grizzlies" totem pole belonging to the Giluts'aaw Gispwuwada House of Niisnawaa at Lax Kw'alaams.
73:
148:
In the late nineteenth century the chieftainship of the Giluts'aaw was held by
Victoria Young, a key convert of Lax Kw'alaams's
173:
34:
44:
38:
30:
123:
55:
244:
2 vols. (Anthropology Series 30, National Museum of Canada
Bulletin 119.) Ottawa: National Museum of Canada.
137:
However, one Giluts'aaw house-group (extended matrilineal family), the House of
Niskiimas (belonging to the
130:
227:
205:(Raven). Another house-group, with no members during this period, was the House of Laa'is, of the
278:
91:
218:
263:
The
Heavens Are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity.
111:
103:
161:
194:
186:
179:
169:
106:, Canada, and one of the nine of those tribes making up the "Nine Tribes" of the lower
272:
153:
119:
107:
198:
172:
described in 1950 as having been, in 1915, the holder of Niisłgümiik, living at
157:
142:
197:
recorded that Giluts'aaw people in Lax Kw'alaams included 29 members of the
149:
99:
206:
202:
138:
165:
141:
or Raven clan), has members who are today associated with the
15:
129:
Since 1834, they have been based at Lax Kw'alaams, when a
247:
Garfield, Viola E. (1939) "Tsimshian Clan and
Society."
249:
University of
Washington Publications in Anthropology,
256:People of the Robin: The Tsimshian of Kitsumkalum.
43:but its sources remain unclear because it lacks
8:
265:Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
74:Learn how and when to remove this message
201:(Killerwhale clan) and 2 members of the
114:(a.k.a. Port Simpson), B.C. The name
7:
156:. She succeeded to the Giluts'aaw
98:) are one of the 14 tribes of the
14:
251:vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 167–340.
20:
1:
126:, B.C., at the Skeena River.
224:Victoria Young, chieftainess
178:In 1915 the anthropologist
295:
254:McDonald, James A. (2003)
90:(properly spelled with an
29:This article includes a
240:Barbeau, Marius (1950)
58:more precise citations.
261:Neylan, Susan (2001)
213:Prominent Giluts'aaws
131:Hudson's Bay Company
228:Shannon Thunderbird
185:The anthropologist
122:, near present-day
212:
31:list of references
230:, Artist/Educator
219:Frederick Alexcee
84:
83:
76:
286:
174:Metlakatla, B.C.
104:British Columbia
79:
72:
68:
65:
59:
54:this article by
45:inline citations
24:
23:
16:
294:
293:
289:
288:
287:
285:
284:
283:
269:
268:
237:
215:
80:
69:
63:
60:
49:
35:related reading
25:
21:
12:
11:
5:
292:
290:
282:
281:
271:
270:
267:
266:
259:
252:
245:
236:
233:
232:
231:
225:
222:
214:
211:
195:William Beynon
187:Viola Garfield
180:Marius Barbeau
170:Marius Barbeau
164:chieftainship
82:
81:
39:external links
28:
26:
19:
13:
10:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
291:
280:
277:
276:
274:
264:
260:
257:
253:
250:
246:
243:
239:
238:
234:
229:
226:
223:
220:
217:
216:
210:
209:(Wolf) clan.
208:
204:
200:
196:
191:
188:
183:
181:
176:
175:
171:
167:
163:
159:
155:
154:Thomas Crosby
151:
146:
144:
140:
135:
132:
127:
125:
121:
117:
113:
112:Lax Kw'alaams
109:
105:
101:
97:
93:
89:
78:
75:
67:
64:February 2021
57:
53:
47:
46:
40:
36:
32:
27:
18:
17:
262:
255:
248:
242:Totem Poles.
241:
235:Bibliography
192:
184:
177:
162:Gispaxlo'ots
147:
136:
128:
120:Lakelse Lake
115:
110:resident at
108:Skeena River
95:
87:
85:
70:
61:
50:Please help
42:
199:Gispwudwada
158:Gispwudwada
152:missionary
145:community.
143:Kitsumkalum
88:Giluts'aaẅ
56:introducing
258:CCI Press.
116:Giluts'aaw
102:nation in
279:Tsimshian
150:Methodist
100:Tsimshian
94:over the
273:Category
221:, artist
207:Laxgibuu
193:In 1935
203:Ganhada
139:Ganhada
124:Terrace
52:improve
166:Ligeex
92:umlaut
37:, or
86:The
275::
41:,
33:,
96:w
77:)
71:(
66:)
62:(
48:.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.