Thursday, January 3, 2008

The Alaska Native Knowledge Network hosts a very good clickable map of the Tlingit territory, divided into Tlingit villages. If you click on any of the Tlingit village territories, another map will open with a listing of all the clans and clan houses that existed in that village.

My own clan is the Tsaagweidee (Killerwhale) clan of Keex (Kake), and I am of the Xaay Hit (Yellow Cedar House).

Tlingit territory included the entire southeast alaska panhandle. We traded in southcentral Alaska with the Athabascan Indians, into British Columbia with the Taltans, and up and down the Pacific Coast as far down as California.

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