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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tlingit clans
		The Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska have two moieties in their society, each of which is divided into a number of clans.
		The Tlingit are a matrilineal society who developed a complex hunter-gatherer culture in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaska coast and the Alexander Archipelago.
		The Tlingit clan functions as the main property owner in the culture, thus almost all formal property amongst the Tlingit belongs to clans, not to individuals.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tlingit-clans (592 words)

	Tlingit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tlingit are a matrilineal society who developed a complex hunter-gatherer culture in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaska coast and the Alexander Archipelago.
		The Interior Tlingit live along the large interior lakes and the drainage of the Taku River, and subsist in a manner similar to their Athabascan neighbors in the mixed spruce taiga.
		The Tlingit clan functions as the main property owner in the culture, thus almost all formal property amongst the Tlingit belongs to clans, not to individuals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tlingit (10531 words)

	Tlingit language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tlingit is currently classified as a distinct and separate branch of the Na-Dené family of North American languages, with its closest relative being Eyak.
		The Tlingit language is distributed from near the mouth of the Copper River down the open coast of the Gulf of Alaska and throughout almost all of the islands of the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.
		Tlingit was until the late 1960s written exclusively in phonetic transcription in the works of linguists and anthropologists, except for a little known Cyrillic alphabet used for publications by the Russian Orthodox Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tlingit_language (3230 words)

	Alaska Native Heritage Center
		Traditional Tlingit territory in Alaska includes the Southeast panhandle between Icy Bay in the north to the Dixon Entrance in the south.
		In the Tlingit clan system, one moiety was known as Raven or Crow, the other moiety as Eagle or Wolf depending upon the time period.
		The Eyak, Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian are known for a ceremony called the “potlatch” and feasts.
	www.alaskanative.net /38.asp (1869 words)

	Tlingit
		Since the Tlingit’s favorite woods, red and yellow cedar, were not native to the area, they traded firs for it.
		Shelter for the Tlingit were large houses framed with poles and covered with hand-split planks of spruce or cedar.
		The Northern Tlingit belonged to the Eagle Clan, to the Southern Tlingit the Wolf Clan.
	www.scsc.k12.ar.us /2002Outwest/NaturalHistory/Projects/LachowskyR/Tlingit.htm (573 words)

	Tlingit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The northern portion of Tlingit country is glacial with the majesty of the Fairweather and Saint Elias mountains overlooking the northern shores of the Gulf of Alaska.
		Tlingit legends speak of migrations into the area from several possible directions, either from the north as a possible result of the Bering Sea land bridge, or from the southwest, after a maritime journey from the Polynesian islands across the Pacific.
		Tlingit people turned to the churches for relief, and in the process many were given new names to replace their Tlingit names, an important basis of identity and status in Tlingit society.
	www.everyculture.com /multi/Sr-Z/Tlingit.html (8324 words)

	Tlingit Customs
		The Tlingit who shot at a decoy duck madethe decoy owner pay for cartridges; the otter hunter rescued from a broken and sinking canoe, demanded the value of the canoe when set ashore; the relatives even of a burglar made the owner of the stolen rifle pay for the burgler killed by its accidental discharge.
		While all other Tlingits were cremated, so as to make sure of a warm and comfortable future, they believed that the shaman's body would not burn, and such were buried in sitting posture in little pavilions in remote and picturesque spots surrounded by the blankets, tows, masks, wands, rattles and paraphernalia of his trade.
		Other Tlingits were cremated with elaborate ceremonies, the wailing, pyrebuilding, etc., always conducted by people of another totem, and the ashes and bones stowed away in a carved grave-box or canoe, or niched in mortuary columns.
	www.arcticwebsite.com /TlingitCustoms.html (1396 words)

	Tlingit
		Tlingit lands and resources are managed by their Sealaska corporation.
		Tlingit society consisted of several clans associated with birds, fish, or animals, clanship being traced through the maternal line.
		The bear and raven were particularly significant in Tlingit mythology; the bear's soul was thought to be the closest to a human's and symbolized the relationship between humans and animals, while the raven was a trickster but also brought gifts to shape the world.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0013192.html (487 words)

	Tlingit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tlingit is the language of coastal Southeastern Alaska from Yakutat south to Ketchikan.
		The total Tlingit population in Alaska is about 10,000 in 16 communities with about 500 speakers of the language.
		Tlingit is one branch of the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language family.
	www.flw.com /languages/tlingit.htm (41 words)

	Verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tlingit language features a four way classification of verbs based on their valency.
		Tlingit lacks a ditransitive, so the indirect object is described by a separate, extraposed clause.
		A similar type of impersonal verb, the weather verb, exists in English, but its non-pro-drop nature requires that a dummy pronoun be used.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Verb (858 words)

	Tlingit
		Tlingit, group of North American tribes of the Athapaskan language family and of the Northwest Pacific Coast culture area.
		The economy of the Tlingit is based mainly on fishing, and they are especially noted for their skill in wood carving.
		The Tlingit occupied the coast of southeastern Alaska from Mount St. Elias to the Portland Canal, with the exception of part of Prince of Wales Island, which had been occupied by the Haida shortly before contact with Europeans.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/tlingit.htm (226 words)

	Tlingit Dancers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dance, for the Tlingit people is a means of expression and communication, and a form of enjoyment.
		(The Tlingit name for the Chilkat blanket was Naxein, meaning "fringe about the body.") Other dance blankets were beaded, appliquéd, or adorned with buttons arranged in pleasing designs.
		Tlingit dance tradition continues here In the Chilkat Valley, kept alive by local native dance troupes.
	www.alaskan.com /docs/tlingitdance.html (706 words)

	Tlingit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tlingit language is spoken primarily in the communities of Carcross and Teslin, Yukon.
		Tlingit is spoken as well by the native people living in the Atlin, B.C. area, and by large numbers of Alaskan natives who live in coastal settlements stretching along the Alaskan panhandle from Yakutat to Ketchikan.
		Tlingit is distantly related to Eyak (an extinct language from the Alaskan coast) and to the Athapaskan family.
	www.yukoncollege.yk.ca /ynlc/YNLCinfo/Tlingit.html (511 words)

	Tlingit - Arctic Studies Center
		Nobility and rank are prominently displayed in the clothing and accoutrements of this Tlingit chief, seen with his ceremonial staff as he might look presiding at a potlatch.
		They were skillful traders and utilized their excess wealth on luxuries given away at splendid feasts (potlatches) which served to honor the dead and to maintain or elevate the rank of aristocrats.
		Tlingit traditions tell of small family groups venturing in boats or rafts down the rivers under the glaciers that once arched over the waters, suggesting how early migration might have come from the interior, to mix with resident coastal populations.
	www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/features/croads/tlingit.html (322 words)

	Tlingit
		In Teslin we are Tlingit natives and we have 5 clans.
		All the natives that belong to the Tlingit natives belong to a clan.
		They have dancers from all of the clans in the Tlingit tradition in Teslin but the two clans that all of the rest are under is Wolf and Raven.
	www.yesnet.yk.ca /schools/teslin/first.html (627 words)

	The Tlingit Language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tlingit society by long tradition is divided into two halves called moieties, each of which comprises a number of clans.
		In this instance it is not hard to imagine that, when Tlingit society loses the language on which the whole cultural and spiritual system is based - the ‘cement’ that binds it together - its whole traditional social and belief system is in danger of collapsing.
		It is true that most Tlingits belong to Christian churches, but up until now this has not significantly interfered with Tlingit social structure and Western religion has normally been harmonized with traditional beliefs.
	home.bluemarble.net /~langmin/miniatures/tlingit.htm (858 words)

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		The Tlingit, like other Northwest Coast peoples, were able to support a relatively complex social and cultural life on the basis of a nonagricultural, fishing, hunting, and gathering economy.
		Since the Tlingit lived on the coast, their subsistence was derived mainly from the sea.
		Although the clans were common throughout all of the Tlingit area, it was the local clan groups that were of greatest importance in settling disputes, ceremonialism, and ownership of fishing and hunting territories.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7875 (1057 words)

	The Art of the Tlingit - ExploreNorth
		In this rich land, the Tlingit, as well as the other coastal peoples such as the Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Nootka and Coast Salish, were able to develop a particularly complex culture, in which the arts were pivotal.
		While the most dramatic of the Tlingit symbols is surely the totem pole, they were traditionally quite rare in the northern part of Tlingit territory.
		While over-commercialization of a culture has many potential pitfalls, the ever-growing interest, not just in the art of the Tlingit, but in the language, and the culture in general, virtually guarantees that the culture is well on its way to being revived, and we are all the richer for it.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/yafeatures/bl-TlingitArt.htm (723 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Tlingit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TLINGIT [Tlingit], group of related Native North American tribes, speaking a language that forms a branch of the Nadene linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
		The 14 divisions of the Tlingit may reflect a former era when they were entirely independent tribes.
		In 1990 there were about 14,400 Tlingit in the United States, mostly in native villages in Alaska.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Tlingit.asp (451 words)

	History of the Tlingit Indians
		The Tlingit are also known as Kolosh and are a Native Amercian people that belong to the Southeastern coast and coastal islands of Alaska.
		The Tlingit Indians and the Haida are closely related in culture.
		The clans of the Tlingit Indians and the family groups were given their status based on the wealth, character, and ancestors of their members.
	www.indians.org /articles/tlingit-indians.html (337 words)

	Tlingit-Haida-Tsimshian
		The Traditional Tlingit Map and Tribal List is a project of the Sealaska Heritage Foundation, the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, and the Alaska Federation of Natives with grant funding provided by the National Science Foundation.
		The center achieves this goal by providing a place for local Sitka Tlingits to teach themselves about their own culture, while also helping Park visitors understand the Native people whose history is part of the Park story.
		The languages represented are Iñupiaq, Aleut, Tlingit, Athabascan, and Yup'ik.
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /southeast.html (1178 words)

	tlingit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tlingit don't eat cax, because it is Raven's mother.
		It was a good source because it told an interesting Tlingit legend and also told us a few of their beliefs.
		This was a bad source because it said Tlingit history, but it was just that legend and that there were five communities missed in Land settlement Claims.
	www.mehs.educ.state.ak.us /portfolios/carleem/academic/tlingit.html (1225 words)

	Tlingit History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She became the ancestress or Mother of the Tlingit Nation." (The Proud Chilkat by Brendan and Lauri Larson.
		The Tlingit people of this area are often referred to as the Chilkats.
		The Tlingit people traditionally embellished their lives with art even ordinary objects were decorated in highly sophisticated and stylized art forms.
	www.alaskan.com /docs/tlingithistory.html (803 words)

	Tlingit language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Tlingit is a Na-Déné language with about 575 speakers in southeast Alaska from Yakutat (Yaakwdáat) south to the Canadian border at Portland Canal, and inland from British Columbia into south central Yukon Territory between Tagish and Kaska northward.
		The Tlingit tribe is one of the Athapascan tribes.
		It is told in some Tlingit legends that during Noahʼs flood the Athapascan tribe, as the water subsided, landed in the area of the Arctic Circle.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/tlingit.htm (337 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:tli
		Speakers are older adults, but many in the 40 to 55 range understand a certain amount of Tlingit.
		English is the first or second language of the ethnic group.
		Story, Gillian L. A morphological study of Tlingit.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=tli (196 words)

	Lingít Yoo X̱'atángi: The Tlingit Language
		There are also many Tlingits who hail from the interior, in adjacent parts of northern British Columbia and the southern Yukon Territory, particularly the towns of Teslin, Carcross, and Atlin.
		Given the fact that Tlingit is spoken over such a wide territory, it is not surprising that there are a number of different dialects of the language.
		Tlingit is also taught on a regular basis at the Juneau campus of the University of Alaska Southeast.
	www.tlingitlanguage.org (344 words)

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