Tsimshiann.adj.
/ˈtʃɪmʃən/ A. n.
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a. An Indian people of the north Pacific coast of North America; also, a member of this people.
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b. Their language.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
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Dogrib1766
Nootka1784
Nootkan1790
Dog-ribbed1791
beaver1801
Okanagan1814
Carrier1820
Sitka1822
Nanaimo1827
Loucheux1828
Nass1830
Tsimshian1836
Sitkan1851
Makah1855
Snohomish1856
Wakash1856
Songhees1860
Stoney1861
Nisga'a1874
Tlingit1881
Nimpkish1886
Wakashan1892
Musqueam1902
Gitksan1917
Squamish1928
'Namgis1966
Nuu-chah-nulth1978
Nuxalk1981
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Creek1725
Choctaw1796
Tsimshian1836
Muskogee1868
Tzeltal1868
Yuki1875
Klamath1881
Takelma1882
Zoque1891
Zoque–Mixe1893
Modoc1907
Yawelmani1907
Sahaptin1921
Totonacan1933
Tzotzil1939
Molale1966
Quichean1968
Mixean1977
1836 D. Finlayson Let. 29 Sept. in E. E. Rich McLoughlin's Fort Vancouver Lett. (1941) 1st Ser. 323 The Pearl Harbour, and Skeenah Indians called the Chimmesyan tribe.
1888 A. P. Niblack Coast Indians S. Alaska & N. Brit. Columbia viii. 336 Amongst the Tsimshian these coppers are exhibited in a circle in upright position at the ceremony of ‘bringing out’ a girl.
1890 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1889 853 The Olala is confined to the southern Tsimshian tribes.
1911 F. Boas Handbk. Amer. Indian Langs. (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 40) I. 290 The system of vowels of Tsimshian is nearly the same as that of the Nass dialect.
1934 D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 2) ii. 18 The Tsimshian of the Nass and Skeena rivers.
1934 D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 2) xxi. 336 The Tsimshian (‘people inside of the Skeena river’), were divided into three groups, the Tsimshian proper around the mouth of Skeena river, the Gitksan (‘Skeena River people’) farther up the same stream, and the Niska who inhabited the basin of Nass (Niska) river.]
1966 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 22 Oct. 27/1 These works by Tlingit, Tsimpshian, and Itaida Indians include..dance sticks, magnificently woven Chilkat blankets, baskets, [etc.].
1972 Language 48 390 Geographically or genetically contiguous languages which share many features of the proposed analysis, e.g. Squamish and Tsimshian.
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