Identity area
Type of entity
Family
Authorized form of name
Tsimshian First Nations
Parallel form(s) of name
- Tsimpshean
- Tsimshean
- Tsimpshian
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Tshimshian communities are in British Columbia and Alaska, around Terrace and Prince Rupert and the southernmost corner of Alaska on Annette Island. There are approximately 10,000 Tsimshian. Their culture is matrilineal with a societal structure based on a clan system, properly referred to as a moiety.
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Control area
Authority record identifier
2009.7
Institution identifier
NBCA
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Status
Final
Level of detail
Partial