The Tlingit are indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their culture and society developed in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaska coast and the Alexander Archipelago. They have a matrilineal kinship system, with children considered born into the mother’s clan and property and hereditary roles passing through the father’s line.
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The Tlingit are indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their culture and society developed in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaska coast and the Alexander Archipelago. They have a matrilineal kinship system, with children considered born into the mother’s clan, and property and hereditary roles passing through the father’s line. The greatest territory historically occupied by the Tledit extended from the Portland Canal along the present border between Alaska and British Columbia, north to the coast just southeast of the Copper River delta in Alaska. Inland group inhabits the far northwestern part of the province of British Columbia and the southern Yukon Territory in Canada. Delineating the modern territory is complicated because they are spread across the border between the United States and Canada, they lack designated reservations, other complex legal and political concerns make the situation confusing, and there is a relatively high level of mobility among the population. They also overlap in territory with various Athabascan peoples, such as the Tahltan, Kaska and Tagish.
The modern communities of Atlin, British Columbia, Teslin, Yukon, and Carcross, Canada have reserves and are the representative Interior Tlingsit populations. Tlingits live in typically American nuclear family households with private ownership of housing and land. Wealth and economic power are important indicators of wealth and power, but so is generosity and proper behavior, so all signs of good breeding and aristocracy are incorporated in all areas of Tling it culture. These signs of ‘good breeding’ and ‘good behavior’ are incorporated into nearly all TlingIt areas of everyday life, even in nearly all Pacific Coast areas of the U.S. and Canada. The land from around Yakutat south through the Alaskan Panhandle, and including the lakes in the Canadian interior, as being Lingít Aaní, the Land of the Tlingitized, is known as LingíT Aanís, the land of theTlingit. The TlingIT culture is complex and complex, a characteristic of Northwest Coast people with access to easily exploited resources.
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