Tsimshian First Nations

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Family

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Tsimshian First Nations

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  • 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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      2009.7

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      NBCA

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