Tlingit
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The Tlingit or Lingít ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Tlingit people are Alaska Natives and First Nations in Canada. They speak the Tlingit language, a Na-Dene language.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Tlingit
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Lingít
- Ethnic group.native_name_lang
- tli
- Ethnic group.image
- 250pxChief Anotklosh of the Taku Tribe, wearing a Chilkat blanket, Juneau, Alaska,
- Ethnic group.region1
- United States (Alaska)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 22,601 (2020)
- Ethnic group.region2
- Canada (British Columbia, Yukon)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 2,110
- Ethnic group.rels
- Christianity, esp. Russian OrthodoxTraditional Alaska Native religion
- Ethnic group.langs
- English, Tlingit, Russian (historically)
- Ethnonym.root
- Lingít"People of the Tides"
- Ethnonym.person
- Lingít
- Ethnonym.people
- Lingít
- Ethnonym.language
- Lingít (Lingít x̱ʼéinax̱)
- Ethnonym.country
- Lingít Aaní
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 15200
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18 sectionsContents
- Name
- Contemporary nations
- Territory
- Tribes or ''ḵwáans''
- Culture
- Philosophy and religion
- Language
- Housing
- Economy
- History
- Food
- Genetics
- Notable Tlingit people
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
The Tlingit or Lingít ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Tlingit people are Alaska Natives and First Nations in Canada. They speak the Tlingit language, a Na-Dene language.
The Tlingit have a matrilineal kinship system, with children born into the mother's clan, and property and hereditary roles passing through the mother's line. Their culture and society developed in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaskan coast and the Alexander Archipelago. The Tlingit have maintained a complex hunter-gatherer culture based on semi-sedentary management of fisheries. Hereditary slavery was practiced extensively until it was outlawed by the United States Government. The Inland Tlingit live in the far northwestern part of the province of British Columbia and the southern Yukon in Canada. Taku Tlingit live in British Columbia and Alaska.