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Archdeacon W. H. Collison, an authority on this subject, and who has resided at
Kincolith, Nass bay, since 1883, states as follows: - "The term Nass is from the Tlingit tongue, and when, as was probable, the Tlingits from Tongass, at the entrance to Observatory inlet, met Captain Vancouver
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The last 40 km (25 mi) of the river are navigable. The river is a commercially valuable salmon fishery. The basin of the Nass is the location of the first modern-day treaty settlement in
British Columbia, between the government of that province and the
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which means "intestines" or "guts" in reference to the river's large food capacity in its fish (Naish & Story 1963; Leer, Hitch, & Ritter 2001). Can also be a
Tlingit word for "food depot". Former spellings are Naas and Nasse. The
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and poisonous smoke. The volcano has been active on at least two occasions (220 and 650 years ago) in the last millennium. Because of our knowledge of this previous disaster, modern
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they gave him their name for the river, i.e., Nass, which means literally "the stomach," from the fact that their food supplies of salmon, oolachan.. a noted fishery."
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if the volume of the lava flows are large enough. If the lava flows were to again reach the Nass River, it could have disastrous short-term consequences for the important
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were to erupt again, there could be a repeat of the poisonous gas disaster that happened to the Nisga'a people 220 years ago. The eruption could also cause
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346:meaning People of Txeemsim (Raven or Trickster);
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362:Nation. The name Nisga'a is a reduced form of
314:. Nass Bay joins Portland Inlet just south of
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614:ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model
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561:List of rivers of British Columbia
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88:Physical characteristics
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264: • location
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1317:Boundary Bay
1312:Baynes Sound
1264:Phillips Arm
1249:Knight Inlet
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1186:Wright Sound
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1058:North Coast
1028:Laskeek Bay
1010:Haida Gwaii
817:Hydrography
699:"Bay Point"
594:"Nass Lake"
513:White River
479:Ksi Sii Aks
458:Tributaries
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1529:Categories
1485:Hansen Bay
1470:Brooks Bay
1437:Toba Inlet
1392:Ramsay Arm
1367:Howe Sound
1299:Salish Sea
1214:Call Inlet
1209:Bute Inlet
653:Nass River
618:GeoLocator
577:References
518:Flat River
473:Ksi Hlginx
437:Tseax Cone
421:monitoring
413:Tseax Cone
397:Highway 37
348:Xsitxemsem
292:Nass River
243:Basin size
207:54°58′37″N
22:Nass River
983:Williston
948:Kinbasket
452:fisheries
425:volcanoes
409:lava flow
255:Discharge
135:129°6′8″W
132:57°9′59″N
100:Nass Lake
76:Districts
963:Okanagan
953:Kootenay
943:Harrison
933:Cowichan
897:Thompson
852:Kootenay
842:Cowichan
837:Columbia
656:Archived
616:, using
555:See also
342:name is
310:via the
179:Nass Bay
66:Province
51:Location
968:Shuswap
958:Nechako
892:Stikine
882:Quesnel
872:Nechako
862:Nanaimo
566:Nisga'a
435:If the
431:Hazards
387:History
370:Tlingit
360:Nisga'a
340:Gitxsan
332:Nisga'a
323:Tlingit
56:Country
978:Teslin
973:Tagish
928:Babine
887:Skeena
847:Fraser
829:Rivers
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449:salmon
405:dammed
352:Lisims
258:
235:Length
97:Source
60:Canada
923:Atlin
915:Lakes
877:Peace
857:Liard
467:Xnukw
445:Tseax
325:name
269:Mouth
175:Mouth
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327:Naas
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