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Definition of Tlingit
1. Noun. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska.
2. Noun. The Na-Dene language spoken by the Tlingit.
Definition of Tlingit
1. Noun. an Indian people from the coastal regions of Alaska and British Columbia ¹
2. Proper noun. the language of these people ¹
3. Adjective. of, or relating to these people or their language ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tlingit
Literary usage of Tlingit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"Field notes on the ethnology of the Tlingit and Copper River Atna; 1949-1960.
... Tlingit material taken primarily from Yakutat and Angoon; Copper River ..."
2. Early Civilization: An Introduction to Anthropology by Alexander Goldenweiser (1922)
"This culture is most clearly represented by the Tlingit and Haida. ... The Tlingit
and Haida speaking tribes are hunters and fishermen. ..."
3. Russian Orthodox Church Of Alaska And The Aleutian Islands And Its Relation by Vyacheslav Ivanov (1998)
"51) that are accepted by modern linguistic comparison: see on Tlingit tot ...
64 (the form given for Tlingit by Wrangell appears close to Haida tc'aa'no). ..."
4. Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada by University of Toronto (1904)
"The Basketry of the Tlingit. By GT Emmons. (Memoirs of the American Museum of
Natural History, vol. iii, Anthropology ii, pp. 229-278. ..."
5. The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians: Their Origin, Development, and by Carol F. Jopling (1989)
"Tlingit Copper frontispiece 2. Map of Northwest Coast Area 2 3. ... Tlingit Copper
found nailed to mortuary pole over an opening containing a child's body ..."
6. The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians: Their Origin, Development, and ...by Carol F. Jopling by Carol F. Jopling (1989)
"Tlingit Copper frontispiece 2. Map of Northwest Coast Area 2 3. ... Tlingit Copper
found nailed to mortuary pole over an opening containing a child's body ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... excepting among the Haida, Tlingit, and others of the north-west coast, where
the great carved and painted totem poles, sometimes sixty feet in height, ..."
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