Tsimshian
/ˈtʃɪmʃɪən
/noun (plural same)
1A member of an American Indian people of the northern Pacific coast.These tribes include Eskimo (the largest), Aleuts, Alaska Athabaskan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, American Indian, and ‘Tribes Not Reported or Specific’....
- Timothy had strong roots in the native Alaskan tribe of the Tsimshian and it showed in more ways than one.
- The Tsimshian were able musicians, dancers,and dramatists.
2 [mass noun] The Penutian language of the Tsimshian, now with few speakers.His name in the language of the native Alaskan Tsimshian, Sm'algyax, had been Baa'làx Án'on, or ‘Ghost Hand’....
- The Gitksan people of British Columbia have no conventional native name for their language which sets it apart from other varieties such as Nisgha and Tsimshian.
- Tomlinson's parents were missionaries, and he also spoke Tsimshian.
adjective
Relating to the Tsimshian or their language.The Gitksan generally refer to their own language as Sim'algax [the real or true language], but the Nisgha and Tsimshian people do the same....
- One of the books that arrived in the mail from a friend is The Porcupine Hunter, a gathering of Tsimshian fables, myths and moral tales (one might call them cautionary tales) written down by Henry Tate from 1903 until his death in 1913.
- In the early 1920s, the Canadian government cut down hundreds of poles in Tsimshian villages and re-erected them miles away along the Canadian-Pacific Railway.
Origin
From Tsimshian ĉamsián, literally 'inside the Skeena River'.
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