tlingits in English
noun
1
a member of an American Indian people of the coasts and islands of southeastern Alaska and adjacent British Columbia.
The bag was collected in the early twentieth century by Gregory Charles, a teacher in Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, where the Tahltans and Tlingits conducted trade with each other and the outside world.
2
the Na-Dene language of the Tlingit.
In the nineteenth century, the first attempts were made to communicate in Tlingit through writing.
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1. Like the Tlingits, the Eyaks preferred wooden dugout canoes to the skin Bidarkas of the Chugach Eskimos and the Aleuts.