tsimshian in English
noun
1
a member of an American Indian people of coastal British Columbia.
These tribes include Eskimo (the largest), Aleuts, Alaska Athabaskan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian , American Indian, and ‘Tribes Not Reported or Specific’.
2
the language of the Tsimshian.
His name in the language of the native Alaskan Tsimshian , Sm'algyax, had been Baa'làx Án'on, or ‘Ghost Hand’.
adjective
1
relating to the Tsimshian or their language.
The Gitksan generally refer to their own language as Sim'algax [the real or true language], but the Nisgha and Tsimshian people do the same.
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1. Alaska Natives or Alaskan Natives are indigenous peoples of Alaska, United States and include: Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures
2. Legaic's face and copper shields were painted at the mouths of both the Nass and Skeena rivers to proclaim his absolute trading monopoly, which all Tsimshian tribes, as well as the Hudson's Bay Company, had to acknowledge through tribute payments.