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Tlingit

Index Tlingit

The Tlingit (or; also spelled Tlinkit) are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. [1]

134 relations: Alaska, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska Native storytelling, Alexander Archipelago, Alsek River, Alutiiq language, Anglicisation, Angoon, Alaska, Animism, Athabaskan languages, Atlin Lake, Atlin, British Columbia, Auke, Auke Bay, Juneau, Battle of Sitka, British Columbia, Byron Mallott, Canada, Canoe, Cape Fox Village, Carcross, Carcross/Tagish First Nation, Chilkat Peninsula, Chilkat River, Chilkat weaving, Christianity, Clan, Clarissa Rizal, Coast Mountains, Copper River (Alaska), Eastern Orthodox Church, Elizabeth Peratrovich, English language, Eulachon, Fort Tongass, Frederick Sound, German language, Glacier Bay Basin, Grammar, Grigory Shelikhov, Gulf of Alaska, Haida people, Haines, Alaska, Halibut, Handbook of North American Indians, Herring, History of the Tlingit, Hoonah, Alaska, Hunter-gatherer, Indian reservation, ..., Indian reserve, Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Infection, International Phonetic Alphabet, Jennie Thlunaut, John R. Swanton, Juneau, Alaska, Kake, Alaska, Kaska Dena, Kayak Island, Ketchikan, Alaska, Kinship, Klawock, Alaska, Klukwan, Alaska, Kuiu Island, Labret, Larry McNeil (photographer), List of edible plants and mushrooms of southeast Alaska, List of lieutenant governors of Alaska, Lynn Canal, Maritime fur trade, Matrilineality, Moiety (kinship), Na-Dene languages, Nass River, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Pacific Ocean, Phoneme, Picea sitchensis, Pinniped, Portland Canal, Presbyterianism, Prince of Wales Island (Alaska), Ribes, Rubus spectabilis, Russian America, Russian language, Russian Orthodox Church, Saint Elias Mountains, Salmon, Saxman, Alaska, Sea otter, Sealaska Corporation, Seaweed, Shakes (Tlingit leaders), Shamanism, Shellfish, Shepherdia canadensis, Sitka, Alaska, Skeena River, Smallpox, Smithsonian Institution, Society for American Archaeology, Southeast Alaska, Spruce, Stikine people, Stikine River, Tagish, Tagish Lake, Tahltan, Taiga, Taku people, Taku River, Taku River Tlingit First Nation, Taku, British Columbia, Tatshenshini River, Temperate rainforest, Teslin Lake, Teslin Tlingit Council, Teslin, Yukon, Thuja plicata, Tillie Paul, Tlingit clans, Tlingit language, Totem pole, Tsimshian, Tsuga heterophylla, University of Alaska Southeast, Walter Soboleff, Wayne Price, William Paul (attorney), Wrangell, Alaska, Yakutat, Alaska, Yukon. Expand index (84 more) »

Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting at the time the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

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Alaska Native storytelling

Alaska Native storytelling has been passed down through generations by means of oral presentation.

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Alexander Archipelago

The Alexander Archipelago is a long archipelago, or group of islands, of North America off the southeastern coast of Alaska.

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Alsek River

The Alsek River (Tlingit Aalseix̱') is a wilderness river flowing from Yukon into Northern British Columbia and into Alaska.

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Alutiiq language

The Alutiiq language (also called Sugpiak, Sugpiaq, Sugcestun,, Cambridge University Press, 1981 Suk, Supik, Pacific Gulf Yupik, Gulf Yupik, Koniag-Chugach) is a close relative to the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language spoken in the western and southwestern Alaska, but is considered a distinct language.

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Anglicisation

Anglicisation (or anglicization, see English spelling differences), occasionally anglification, anglifying, englishing, refers to modifications made to foreign words, names and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce, or understand in English.

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Angoon, Alaska

Angoon (sometimes formerly spelled Angun) (Tlingit: Aangoon) is a city on Admiralty Island in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States.

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Animism

Animism (from Latin anima, "breath, spirit, life") is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.

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Athabaskan languages

Athabaskan or Athabascan (also Dene, Athapascan, Athapaskan) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three groups of contiguous languages: Northern, Pacific Coast and Southern (or Apachean).

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Atlin Lake

Atlin Lake is a lake in northwestern British Columbia and is that province's largest natural lake, covering 300 sq mi (780 km2).

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Atlin, British Columbia

Atlin (Tlingit: Áa Tlein) is a community in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on the eastern shore of Atlin Lake.

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Auke

The Auke are an Alaskan Native people, whose autonym Aakʼw Ḵwáan means "Small Lake People." They are a subgroup of the Tlingit.

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Auke Bay, Juneau

Auke Bay is an unincorporated community located in the city and borough of Juneau, Alaska that contains Auke Bay Harbor, Auke Lake, the University of Alaska Southeast, a former branch office of NOAA, an elementary school, a church, a post office, a bar, a coffee shop, a waffle house, a thrift shop, a Thai restaurant, and one convenience store.

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Battle of Sitka

The Battle of Sitka (1804) was the last major armed conflict between Russians and Alaska Natives, and was initiated in response to the destruction of a Russian trading post two years before.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Byron Mallott

Byron I. Mallott (born April 6, 1943) is an American politician, elder, tribal activist, and business executive from the state of Alaska.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canoe

A canoe is a lightweight narrow vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel using a single-bladed paddle.

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Cape Fox Village

Cape Fox Village is a locality in Southeast Alaska near present-day Ketchikan.

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Carcross

Carcross, originally known as Caribou Crossing, is an unincorporated community in Yukon, Canada, on Bennett Lake and Nares Lake.

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Carcross/Tagish First Nation

The Carcross/Tagish First Nation (C/TFN or CTFN) is a First Nation in the Canadian territory, Yukon.

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Chilkat Peninsula

The Chilkat Peninsula is a peninsula in Lynn Canal, Southeast Alaska that divides the Chilkoot and Chilkat Inlets and divides the Chilkat and Chilkoot watersheds.

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Chilkat River

The Chilkat River is a river in British Columbia and southeastern Alaska that flows southward from the Coast Range to the Chilkat Inlet and ultimately Lynn Canal.

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Chilkat weaving

Chilkat weaving is a traditional form of weaving practiced by Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and other Northwest Coast peoples of Alaska and British Columbia.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

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Clarissa Rizal

Clarissa Rizal was a Tlingit artist of Filipino descent.

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Coast Mountains

The Coast Mountains are a major mountain range in the Pacific Coast Ranges of western North America, extending from southwestern Yukon through the Alaska Panhandle and virtually all of the Coast of British Columbia south to the Fraser River.

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Copper River (Alaska)

The Copper River or Ahtna River, Ahtna Athabascan ‘Atna’tuu, "river of the Ahtnas", Tlingit Eeḵhéeni, "river of copper", is a 290-mile (470 km) river in south-central Alaska in the United States.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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Elizabeth Peratrovich

Elizabeth Jean Peratrovich (July 4, 1911December 1, 1958), Tlingit nation, was an important civil rights activist; she worked on behalf of equality for Alaska Natives.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Eulachon

The eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus; also spelled oolichan, ooligan, hooligan), also called the candlefish, is a small anadromous ocean fish, a smelt found along the Pacific coast of North America from northern California to Alaska.

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Fort Tongass

Fort Tongass was a United States Army base on Tongass Island, in the southernmost Alaska Panhandle, located adjacent to the village of the group of Tlingit people on the east side of the island.

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Frederick Sound

Frederick Sound (also called Prince Frederick Sound or Prince Frederick's Sound) is a passage of water in the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska that separates Kupreanof Island to the south from Admiralty Island in the north.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Glacier Bay Basin

Glacier Bay Basin in southeastern Alaska, in the United States, encompasses the Glacier Bay and surrounding mountains and glaciers, which was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925, and which was later, on December 2, 1980, enlarged and designated as the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, covering an area of 3,283,000 acres (1,329,000 ha).

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Grammar

In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

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Grigory Shelikhov

Grigory Ivanovich Shelekhov (Григо́рий Ива́нович Ше́лихов in Russian) (1747, Rylsk, Belgorod Governorate – July 20, 1795 (July 31, 1795 New Style)) was a Russian seafarer and merchant.

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Gulf of Alaska

The Gulf of Alaska (Golfe d'Alaska) is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found.

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Haida people

Haida (X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat) are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Haida Gwaii (A Canadian archipelago) and the Haida language.

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Haines, Alaska

Haines (Tlingit: Deishú) is a census-designated place located in Haines Borough, Alaska, United States.

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Halibut

Halibut is a common name principally applied to the two flatfish in the genus Hippoglossus from the family of right-eye flounders.

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Handbook of North American Indians

The Handbook of North American Indians is a monographic series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in Americanist studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 1978.

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Herring

Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family Clupeidae.

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History of the Tlingit

The history of the Tlingit involves both pre-contact and post-contact historical events and stories.

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Hoonah, Alaska

Hoonah (Xunaa in Tlingit) is a largely Tlingit community on Chichagof Island, located in Alaska's panhandle in the southeast region of the state.

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Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.

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Indian reservation

An Indian reservation is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a federally recognized Native American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located.

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Indian reserve

In Canada, an Indian reserve (réserve indienne) is specified by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." First Nations reserves are the areas set aside for First Nations people after a contract with the Canadian state ("the Crown"), and are not to be confused with land claims areas, which involve all of that First Nations' traditional lands: a much larger territory than any other reserve.

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Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast

The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are composed of many nations and tribal affiliations, each with distinctive cultural and political identities, but they share certain beliefs, traditions and practices, such as the centrality of salmon as a resource and spiritual symbol.

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Infection

Infection is the invasion of an organism's body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agents and the toxins they produce.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

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Jennie Thlunaut

Jennie Thlunaut (1892–1986) was a Tlingit artist, who is credited with keeping the art of Chilkat weaving alive National Endowment for the Arts.

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John R. Swanton

John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States.

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Juneau, Alaska

The City and Borough of Juneau (Tlingit: Dzánti K'ihéeni), commonly known as Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska.

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Kake, Alaska

Kake (like ''cake'') is a first-class city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States.

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Kaska Dena

The Kaska or Kaska Dena are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living mainly in northern British Columbia and the southeastern Yukon in Canada.

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Kayak Island

Kayak Island, (Eyak: Qe'yiłteh) which includes the Bering Expedition Landing Site, is located in the Gulf of Alaska, 100 km (62 mi) SE of Cordova, Alaska Malaspina Coastal Plain, on the eastern edge of Chugach National Forest.

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Ketchikan, Alaska

Ketchikan (Kichx̱áan) is a city in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States, the southeasternmost city in Alaska.

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Kinship

In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.

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Klawock, Alaska

Klawock (Tlingit: Láwaak) is a city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, in the U.S. state of Alaska, on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island, on Klawock Inlet, across from Klawock Island.

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Klukwan, Alaska

Klukwan (Tlingit: Tlákw.aan) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Alaska, United States.

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Kuiu Island

Kuiu Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska.

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Labret

A labret is one form of body piercing.

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Larry McNeil (photographer)

Larry McNeil (born Larry Tee Harbor Jackson McNeil) is a Native American photographer and printmaker.

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List of edible plants and mushrooms of southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska has an unusual climate that allows a large number of edible plant and edible mushroom species to grow.

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List of lieutenant governors of Alaska

This is a list of people who have served as lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Alaska since statehood in 1959.

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Lynn Canal

Lynn Canal is an inlet (not an artificial canal) into the mainland of southeast Alaska.

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Maritime fur trade

The maritime fur trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska.

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Matrilineality

Matrilineality is the tracing of descent through the female line.

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Moiety (kinship)

In the anthropological study of kinship, a moiety is a descent group that coexists with only one other descent group within a society.

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Na-Dene languages

Na-Dene (also Nadene, Na-Dené, Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit, Tlina–Dene) is a family of Native American languages that includes at least the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages.

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Nass River

The Nass River is a river in northern British Columbia, Canada.

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Nora Marks Dauenhauer

Nora Marks Dauenhauer (May 8, 1927 – September 25, 2017) was a Tlingit poet, short-story writer, and Tlingit language scholar from Alaska.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Phoneme

A phoneme is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.

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Picea sitchensis

Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to almost 100 m (330 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter at breast height that can exceed 5 m (16 ft).

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Pinniped

Pinnipeds, commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals.

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Portland Canal

The Portland Canal is an arm of Portland Inlet, one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a part of the reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to Britain, particularly Scotland, and Ireland.

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Prince of Wales Island (Alaska)

Prince of Wales Island is one of the islands of the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle.

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Ribes

Ribes is a genus of about 150 known species of flowering plants native throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Rubus spectabilis

Rubus spectabilis (salmonberry) is a species of brambles in the rose family, native to the west coast of North America from west central Alaska to California, inland as far as Idaho.

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Russian America

Russian America (Русская Америка, Russkaya Amerika) was the name of the Russian colonial possessions in North America from 1733 to 1867.

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Russian language

Russian (rússkiy yazýk) is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Rússkaya pravoslávnaya tsérkov), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskóvskiy patriarkhát), is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox patriarchates.

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Saint Elias Mountains

The Saint Elias Mountains (Chaîne Saint-Élie) are a subgroup of the Pacific Coast Ranges, located in southeastern Alaska in the United States, Southwestern Yukon and the very far northwestern part of British Columbia in Canada.

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Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

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Saxman, Alaska

Saxman is a city on Revillagigedo Island in Ketchikan Gateway Borough in southeastern Alaska, United States.

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Sea otter

The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean.

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Sealaska Corporation

Sealaska Corporation is the largest of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) in settlement of aboriginal land claims.

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Seaweed

Seaweed or macroalgae refers to several species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.

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Shakes (Tlingit leaders)

Chief Shakes is a distinguished Tlingit leadership title passed down through generations among groups of native people from Northwestern North America.

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Shamanism

Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.

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Shellfish

Shellfish is a food source and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

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Shepherdia canadensis

Shepherdia canadensis, commonly called Canada buffaloberry, russet buffaloberry, soopolallie, soapberry, or foamberry (Ktunaxa: kupaʔtiǂ) is one of a small number of shrubs of the genus Shepherdia that bears edible berries.

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Sitka, Alaska

The City and Borough of Sitka (Sheetʼká), formerly Novo-Arkhangelsk, or New Archangel under Russian rule (Ново-Архангельск or Новоaрхангельск, t Novoarkhangelsk), is a unified city-borough located on Baranof Island and the southern half of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean (part of the Alaska Panhandle), in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Skeena River

The Skeena River is the second-longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada (after the Fraser River).

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by one of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Society for American Archaeology

The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is the largest organization of professional archaeologists of the Americas in the world.

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Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska, sometimes referred to as the Alaska Panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Spruce

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.

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Stikine people

The Stikine people (Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan) are a ḵwáan or regional group of the Tlingit, today based at Wrangell, Alaska.

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Stikine River

The Stikine River (Tlingit: Shtax'héen) is a river, historically also the Stickeen River, approximately 610 km (379 mi) long, in northwestern British Columbia in Canada and in southeast Alaska in the United States.

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Tagish

The Tagish or Tagish Khwáan (Tagish: Tā̀gish kotʼīnèʼ, Tlingit: Taagish ḵwáan) are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that lived around Tagish Lake and Marsh Lake, in Yukon of Canada.

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Tagish Lake

Tagish Lake is a lake in Yukon and northern British Columbia, Canada.

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Tahltan

Tahltan (also Nahanni) are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group who live in northern British Columbia around Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake, and Iskut.

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Taiga

Taiga (p; from Turkic), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces and larches.

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Taku people

The Taku are an Alaskan Native people, a ḵwáan or geographic subdivision of the Tlingit, known in their own language as the Tʼaaḵu Ḵwáan or "Geese Flood Upriver Tribe".

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Taku River

The Taku River is a river running from British Columbia, Canada, to the northwestern coast of North America, at Juneau, Alaska.

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Taku River Tlingit First Nation

The Taku River Tlingit First Nation are the band government of the Inland Tlinkit in far northern British Columbia, Canada and also in Yukon.

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Taku, British Columbia

Taku, also known as Taku Landing, is a locality on Graham Inlet of the Taku Arm of Tagish Lake in the Atlin District of far northwestern British Columbia, Canada.

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Tatshenshini River

The Tatshenshini River (Tlingit Tʼachanshahéeni, Southern Tutchone Shäwshe Chù) is a river in the southwestern Yukon and the northwestern corner of British Columbia, Canada.

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Temperate rainforest

Temperate rainforests are coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rainfall.

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Teslin Lake

Teslin Lake is a large lake spanning the border between British Columbia and Yukon, Canada.

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Teslin Tlingit Council

The Teslin Tlingit Council (TTC) is a First Nation band government in the central Yukon in Canada, located in Teslin, Yukon along the Alaska Highway and Teslin Lake.

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Teslin, Yukon

The community of Teslin includes the Village of Teslin in Yukon, Canada.

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Thuja plicata

Thuja plicata, commonly called western or Pacific redcedar, giant or western arborvitae, giant cedar, or shinglewood, is a species of Thuja, an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae native to western North America.

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Tillie Paul

Tillie Paul (January 18, 1863 – August 20, 1952) was a Tlingit translator, civil rights advocate, educator, and Presbyterian church elder.

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Tlingit clans

The Tlingit clans of Southeast Alaska, in the United States, are one of the indigenous cultures within Alaska.

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Tlingit language

The Tlingit language (Lingít) is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada.

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Totem pole

Totem poles (Gyáa'aang in the Haida language) are monumental carvings, a type of Northwest Coast art, consisting of poles, posts or pillars, carved with symbols or figures.

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Tsimshian

The Tsimshian (Coast Tsimshian: Ts’msyan) are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

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Tsuga heterophylla

Tsuga heterophylla, the western hemlock or western hemlock-spruce, is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Sonoma County, California.

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University of Alaska Southeast

The University of Alaska Southeast is a public, four year university that is part of the University of Alaska System.

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Walter Soboleff

Walter Alexander Soboleff (November 14, 1908–May 22, 2011) was a Tlingit scholar, elder and religious leader.

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Wayne Price

Wayne Price is a former professional strongman competitor from South Africa.

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William Paul (attorney)

William Lewis Paul (May 7, 1885 – March 4, 1977) was an American attorney, legislator, and political activist from the Tlingit nation of Southeast Alaska.

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Wrangell, Alaska

The City and Borough of Wrangell (Tlingit: Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw) is a borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Yakutat, Alaska

The City and Borough of Yakutat (Tlingit: Yaakwdáat) is a borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Yukon

Yukon (also commonly called the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three federal territories (the other two are the Northwest Territories and Nunavut).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit

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