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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...
- The
Gitxsan language /ˈɡɪtsæn/, or
Gitxsanimaax (also
rendered Gitksan, Giatikshan, Gityskyan,
Giklsan and Sim Algyax), is an
endangered Tsimshianic language...
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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...
- The
Gitxsan Treaty Society handles Treaty negotiations in the BC
Treaty Process for a
number of
First Nations in
northwestern British Columbia The Gitxsan...
- councils.
Ethnic groups include the Haida,
Coast Salish, Kwakwaka'wakw,
Gitxsan, Tsimshian, Nisga'a and
other examples of the
Pacific Northwest Coast cultures...
- 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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Aboriginal title (a
distinct kind of
Aboriginal right) in Canada.: 99 The
Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en
peoples claimed Aboriginal title and
jurisdiction over...
- 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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Early Euro-Canadian
anthropologists and
linguists had
classified the
Gitxsan and Nisga'a as Tsimshian,
because of
apparent linguistic affinities. The...
- were the Haida, Tsimshian, Salish, Kwakiutl, Nuu-chah-nulth, Nisga'a and
Gitxsan. In the
plains were the Blackfoot, Kainai,
Sarcee and
Northern Peigan....
