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Gitksan, n. and a.
Brit. |gɪtˈksɑːn|, U.S. |gɪtˈksɑn|, Canad. |gɪtˈksɒn|
Plural unchanged, -s
Forms: α. 18– Gyitksan, 18– Gyitkshan, 18– Kitksan, 19– Giktsan, 19– Gitksan, 19– Gitsken, 19– Gitxsan, 19– Kitkson; β. 18 Kitksian, 19– Gitksian, 19– Gitxsian, 19– Gityskyan
[Partly ‹ Gitksan kitksan (in other dialects kitxsan, kitxsen) people of the Skeena River (compare kit- people of), and partly (in β forms) ‹ its cognate Coast Tsimshian kitksyán.]
A. n.
1. A member of a North American Indian people inhabiting north-western British Columbia, Canada.
1889F. Boas in 5th Rep. North-west. Tribes Canada (Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci.) 35 It is a privilege for the Gyispaqlâots to trade with the Gyitksa´n. 1910J. G. Frazer Totemism & Exogamy III. xvii. 307 The Gitksans or Kitksans of the upper Skeena River, and the Niskas of the Nass River. 1914Amer. Anthropologist 16 402 Their traditions all point to an inland origin, at least as far back from the coast as the present territory of the Kitksan. 1977Modesto (Calif.) Bee 20 Mar. f5/3 The skills of young Gitksan working at traditional crafts. 2006Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 18 Feb. (Travel & Leisure section) l7 An unpainted totem pole carved by..a Gitxsan from British Columbia.
2. The language spoken by the Gitksan, belonging to the Tsimshian language family. Cf. Nass–Gitksan n.
1895F. Boas in 10th Rep. North-west. Tribes Canada (Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci.) 35 The other dialects are the Tsimshian and the Gyitkshan. 1962Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 28 169 Coast Tsimshian has the most speakers. Niska and Gitksan have fewer than 1,000 each. 1989Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 34 130 A discussion of syntactic ergativity in Nishga and Gitksan, two other Tsimshian languages. 1992Gallerie: Women Artists' Monogr. Dec. 25 Her first language is Gitksan.
B. adj. Of or relating to the Gitksan or their language.
1917Man 17 137 [He] built a good church and printed a useful primer or Gitksian Reader, all done by Indian help. 1927Salamanca (N.Y.) Republican-Press 25 May 5/3 The pre-historic part of the ancient Gitksan village site near Hazelton. 1993Vandance Jan. 7/2 The Jamieson collaboration with Gitksan performers does remain one of the very few bona fide examples of transcultural hybridization. 2005C. Mann 1491 Pref. p. xi, I traveled to the village of Hazelton, on the upper Skeena River in the middle of British Columbia. Many of its inhabitants belong to the Gitksan (or Gitxsan) nation. |