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Ligeex (variously spelled: "Legaic" etc.) is a
hereditary name-title
belonging to the Gispaxlo'ots
tribe of the
Tsimshian First Nation from the village...
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established at Lax Kw'alaams, they have been
based there.
Their chief Ligeex permitted the HBC to
build on Gispaxlo'ots territory. Traditionally, the...
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missionary William Duncan,
whose life was
being threatened by
Chief Ligeex of the Gispaxlo'ots,
angry that church-bells were
tolling on the day of...
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tribal chief,
Ligeex,
ordered Duncan at
gunpoint (some
versions say knifepoint) to
cease tolling churchbells on the day of his (
Ligeex's) daughter's initiation...
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Simpson was Dr. John
Frederick Kennedy. He
married the
daughter of
chief Ligeex of the Gispaxloʼots, as part of the
diplomacy which established the fort...
- available. However,
despite marrying a
holder of the Gispaxlo'ots
chieftainship Ligeex, she bore no
children and
after her
death in 1898 the name Niisłgümiik was...
- John
Frederick Kennedy, who
married the
daughter of the Gispaxlo'ots
chief Ligeex as part of the
diplomacy which established the fort on Gispaxlo'ots territory...
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Tsimshian and Nisga'a
Laxsgiik houses.
Gwinhuut houses include:
House of
Ligeex, Gispaxlo'ots tribe, Lax Kw'alaams (Port Simpson)
House of Lutguts'amti...
- He was
adopted into the Gispaxlo'ots in
order to
perpetuate the
House of
Ligeex, a
house closely related to Sgagweet. The
anthropologist Marius Barbeau...
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intersect with the
exploits of
Tsimshian Laxsgiik (Eagle clan)
chiefs such as
Ligeex of the Gispaxlo'ots and
Gitxon of Kitselas. The word "med****" (midiik) is...
