63:(Raven-clan) hereditary name-title Niisyaganaat and the royal house-group (extended matrilineal family) of the same name. The current Niisyaganaat is Lawrence Helin, uncle to the author
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Marsden, pp. 45–54. (Suwilaay'msga Na Ga'niiyatgm, Teachings of Our Grandfathers, vol. 1.) Prince Rupert, B.C.: First Nations Advisory Council of School District #52.
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1930 for the death of
Herbert Wallace, who had held Niisyaganaat. An earlier chief of the Gits'iis, according to Garfield, had been one Abraham Lincoln, named not for
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means literally "people of the seal trap." Their traditional territory includes the areas around the
Khutzeymateen Inlet and Work Channel, between Lax Kw'alaams and
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belonging to Dago'milsk, depicting a sea lion with gun in his mouth, was still standing (with the gun having fallen away) in Lax Kw'alaams in the 1930s.
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2 vols. (Anthropology Series 30, National Museum of Canada
Bulletin 119.) Ottawa: National Museum of Canada.
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The House of Łüüm and the House of Dago'milsk are two other
Ganhada house-groups of the Gits'iis tribe. A
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Amwaaltga Tsmsiyeen: The Tsimshian, Trade, and the Northwest Coast Economy,
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Beynon, William (1992) "The Feast of
Nisyaganaat, Chief of the Gitsiis." In
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Dances with
Dependency: Indigenous Success through Self-Reliance.
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Garfield, Viola E. (1939) "Tsimshian Clan and
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but for an employer named
Lincoln and for the biblical
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University of Washington Publications in Anthropology,
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Vancouver: Orca Spirit Publishing and Communications.
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