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three generations earlier "when his 'brother' usurped his place and took the ... chieftainship" of the
Kitkatla tribe. The leading, royal house of the Ginadoiks had become extinct, allowing the Kitkatla man to accede to the name Niisweexs. He was succeeded by a "house 'nephew'", who was in turn
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means literally "people of the rapids". Their traditional territory is the watershed of the
Gitnadoiks River, a tributary of the Skeena. Since 1834, they have been based at Lax Kw'alaams, when a
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wrote in 1938 that the then-current head chief of the
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