Tlingit search keywords
- Lingít
- Jilḵáat Ḵwáan (Chilkat Tlingit)
- Jilḵoot Ḵwáan (Chilkoot Tlingit)
- Tʼaaḵu Ḵwáan (Taku Tlingit)
- Chilkat River, Chilkat Peninsula
- Taku River
- Stikine River
- Lingít Aaní
- Raven (Yéil naa)
- Eagle (Ch'aak'/Gooch naa)
- Battle of Sitka, Tlingit Rebellion
A list of Tlingit ḵwáans, their variant names and Anglicized spellings can be found here.
Tlingit Traditional Governance
- Teslin Tlingit Council Cultural Orientation and Protocols ToolkitCultural orientation and protocol toolkit, published by the Teslin Tlingit council. Includes information on history, communication, cultural values and beliefs, birth and death, potlatch, marriage, traditional values, protocol and community.
Sharing our knowledge: the Tlingit and their coastal neighbors by ISBN: 0803240562Publication Date: 2015"These interdisciplinary, collaborative essays present Tlingit culture, as well as the culture of their coastal neighbors, not as an object of study but rather as a living heritage that continues to inspire and guide the lives of communities and individuals throughout southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia."- Tlingit at.oow: Tangible and intangible property byPublication Date: 1998Thesis. "This study specifically examines the social and ideological basis of communal claims of ownership to property among the Tlingit and the interrelationship between its metaphysical ideologies and infrastructure, and Tlingit legal norms governing property. To do so, it analyzes the Tlingit concept of at.oow which is central to Tlingit law and property. This study also examines the traditional judicial institutions that were utilized in the dispute settlement process prior to the adoption of Western court systems."
- Tools of self -definition: Colonization and Tlingit intellectual traditions byPublication Date: 2001"Tlingit totemic law, as represented by culturally specific semiotic systems such as totem poles and screens, represented a sophisticated, codified legal system..."
- Tlingit geographies of hope: Clan, corporation, and sustainable economies of place byPublication Date: 2020"The essay argues that geographies of hope for Tlingit communities in Southeast Alaska begin with a strong sense of place, both social and geographic. In Tlingit, the matrilineal clan—the repository of heritage, identity, and property—constitutes the collective, animate source of resilience, hope, and renewal."
Other resources
- Łingít Kusteeyí (Tlingit way of life): Revitalizing Tlingit Law for Land and WildlifeThe main objective of this project is to engage constructively with Tlingit law, articulate these laws, and apply them as a guiding force to rebuilding the relationship between wildlife and humans in the territory (wildlife management).
- T’akhu  Tlèn ConservancyThe T’akhu  Tlèn Conservancy is dedicated to ensuring the traditional territory of the Taku River Tlingit Nation remains a landscape where the needs of the Taku River Tlingit Nation people are satisfied in harmony with the continued long term viability of its native plants, fish, wildlife and natural ecosystems.
Video resources
"In this lecture, Gwál Yisikóo Yá Yéil: Maybe You Know This Raven, X̱’unei Lance Twitchell explores the character of Raven based on analysis of a series of Yéil Ḵutláakw (Raven Cycles) and Yéil Shkalneek (Raven Stories) that were documented from the 1950s through 2013. In his talk he discusses the behaviors and speech patterns of Raven and explores what this may reveal about people, places, languages, and histories."