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    Gitxsan (also spelled Gitksan and Kitksan) are an Indigenous people in Canada whose home territory comprises most of the area known as the Skeena Country...
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    important transportation artery, particularly for the Tsimshian and the Gitxsan—whose names mean "inside the River of Mist", and "people of the River of...
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    The Gitxsan language /ˈɡɪtsæn/, or Gitxsanimaax (also rendered Gitksan, Giatikshan, Gityskyan, Giklsan and Sim Algyax), is an endangered Tsimshianic language...
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  • The Gitxsan Treaty Society handles Treaty negotiations in the BC Treaty Process for a number of First Nations in northwestern British Columbia The Gitxsan...
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    halves: for example, between a Killer Whale and a Raven or Eagle. The Gitxsan or Gitksan, meaning "people of the Skeena River", were known with the Nisga'a...
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  • Doreen Jensen (category Gitxsan people)
    grandchildren. Jensen’s cousin Lonnie Hindle developed the phonetic system for the Gitxsan language with Bruce Rigsby, an American linguist. As a competent speaker...
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    Ayookxw. The Gitx̱san set of laws is known as Ayokim Gitx̱san, Ayookim Gitx̱san, Ayookw, or Ayook. Forming the most fundamental core of Gitx̱san society are...
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    Delgamuukw v British Columbia (category Gitxsan)
    Aboriginal title (a distinct kind of Aboriginal right) in Canada.: 99  The Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en peoples claimed Aboriginal title and jurisdiction over...
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    Nisg̱a’a, Nishga, Nisgha, Niska, Nass, Nishka) Gitksan (also known as Gitxsan, Gitksanimx̣) Coast Tsimshian is spoken along the lower Skeena River in...
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    councils. Ethnic groups include the Haida, Coast Salish, Kwakwaka'wakw, Gitxsan, Tsimshian, Nisga'a and other examples of the Pacific Northwest Coast cultures...
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    disaster. The exact location of the village has been lost. The neighbouring Gitxsan people of the Hazelton area have a similar tale, though the village in...
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    Simon Gunanoot (category Gitxsan people)
    Simon Gunanoot (1874 – October 1933) was a prosperous Gitxsan man and a merchant in the Kispiox Valley region of Hazelton, British Columbia, Canada. He...
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    Early Euro-Canadian anthropologists and linguists had classified the Gitxsan and Nisga'a as Tsimshian, because of apparent linguistic affinities. The...
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  • Cindy Blackstock (category Gitxsan people)
    Cindy Blackstock OC FRSC (born c. 1964) is a Canadian Gitxsan activist for child welfare and executive director of the First Nations Child and Family...
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    arts of the Tsimshianic-speaking peoples in British Columbia (Tsimshian, Gitxsan, and Nisga'a), and other Northwest Coast peoples. He developed unconventional...
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    for the river is K'alii Aksim Lisims "Lisims (river name) Valley". The Gitxsan name is Git-Txaemsim meaning People of Txeemsim (Raven or Trickster); Xsitxemsem...
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    Kispiox (category Gitxsan)
    Kispiox is a Gitxsan (often known also as Gitksan, due to eastern and western dialects) village of approximately 550 in the Kispiox Valley, at the confluence...
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    A Gitxsan pole (left) and Kwakwaka'wakw pole (right) at Thunderbird Park in Victoria, Canada....
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    National Forest in Oregon. The beaked hazelnut has been cultivated by the Gitxsan, Tsimshian, and Nisga'a peoples for at least 7,000 years. Native Americans...
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    Tsimshian; Haida; Salish; Kwakwakaʼwakw; Heiltsuk; Nootka; Nisga'a; Senakw and Gitxsan. In the plains were the Niisitapi; Káínawa; Tsuutʼina; and Piikáni. In...
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  • Shuswap Squamish Thompson Siouan Stoney Sioux Assiniboine Tsimshian Coast Gitxsan Nisga'a Southern† Wakashan Ditidaht Haisla Heiltsuk-Oowekyala Kwakʼwala...
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    'Ksan (category Gitxsan)
    ʼKsan is a historical village and living museum of the Gitxsan Indigenous people in the Skeena Country of Northwestern British Columbia, Canada. ʼKsan...
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    were the Haida, Tsimshian, Salish, Kwakiutl, Nuu-chah-nulth, Nisga'a and Gitxsan. In the plains were the Blackfoot, Kainai, Sarcee and Northern Peigan....
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    Hazelton, British Columbia (category Gitxsan)
    1881, William Collison founded the Anglican mission at Hazelton among the Gitxsan. In July 1888, the militia was sent from Victoria to quell an indigenous...
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    Shuswap Squamish Thompson Siouan Stoney Sioux Assiniboine Tsimshian Coast Gitxsan Nisga'a Southern† Wakashan Ditidaht Haisla Heiltsuk-Oowekyala Kwakʼwala...
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  • also been analyzed as [ʄ], and the implosive affricates reported from Gitxsan turn out to be lenis ejectives that are sometimes perceived as voiced....
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    River Tlingit First Nation "Our Way: The Traditional System Today". Gitxsan. Gitx̱san Nation. Retrieved December 24, 2018. "Wet'suwet'en People". Unist'ot'en...
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  • Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain...
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  • Columbia (Prince George) RCMP Dale Culver, an Indigenous man from the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Nations, was arrested and sprayed with pepper spray where...
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    as among matrilineal Canadian aboriginal groups, such as the Haida and Gitxsan). Upon marriage to a woman, men in the United States can change their surnames...
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