This article is about the Alaskan Native group. For the Siberian people, see Telengit.
For other uses, see Tlingit (disambiguation).
Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America
Tlingit
Chief Anotklosh of the Taku Tribe, wearing a Chilkat blanket, Juneau, Alaska, c. 1913
Regions with significant populations
United States (Alaska)
14,000[1]
Canada (British Columbia, Yukon)
2,110[2][1]
Languages
English, Tlingit, Russian (historically)
Religion
Christianity, esp. Russian Orthodox Traditional Alaska Native religion
Lingít "People of the Tides"
People
Tlingit
Language
Lingít
Country
Tlingit Aaní
The Tlingit or Lingít (English: /ˈtlɪŋkɪt,ˈklɪŋkɪt/ⓘTLING-kit, KLING-kit) are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America and constitute two of the two-hundred thirty-one (231, as of 2022)[3] federally recognized Tribes of Alaska.[4] Although the majority, about 14,000[citation needed] people, are Alaska Natives, there is a small minority, 2,110,[2] who are Canadian First Nations.
Their language is the Tlingit language (natively Lingít, pronounced [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]),[5] in which the name means 'People of the Tides'.[6] The Russian name Koloshi (Колоши, from a Sugpiaq-Alutiiq term kulut'ruaq for the labret worn by women) or the related German name Koulischen may be encountered referring to the people in older historical literature, such as Grigory Shelikhov's 1796 map of Russian America.[7] Tlingit people today belong to two federally recognized Alaska Native tribes: the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska[8] and the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe.[9]
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.[10] 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.[11] Hereditary servitude was practiced extensively until it was outlawed by the United States Government.[12] An inland group, known as the Inland Tlingit, inhabits the far northwestern part of the province of British Columbia and the southern Yukon in Canada.
^ abAs of the 1990s. Pritzker, 209
^ ab"Aboriginal Population Profile, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
^"Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs" (January 28, 2022), 87 FR 4636
^Pritzker, 162
^"Lingít Yoo X'atángi: The Tlingit Language." Sealaska Heritage Institute. (retrieved 3 December 2009)
^Pritzker, 208
^Shelikhov, Gregorii Ivanovich and Richard A. Pierce. A Voyage to America 1783–1786. Kingston: Limestone Press, 1981.
^"Tlingit & Haida". Bureau of Indian Affairs. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
^"Yakutat". Retrieved 1 September 2023.
^Pritzker, 210
^Moss, 27
^"NEWS_Blog_Slavery_QA | Sealaska Heritage". www.sealaskaheritage.org. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
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