The Tlingit (Tlinkit) are indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their language is the Tlingit language which means ‘People of the Tides’.

The Tlingit have a matrilineal kinship system, with children considered born into the mother’s clan, and property and hereditary roles passing through the mother’s line. Their culture and society developed in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaskan coast and the Alexander Archipelago. The Tlingit maintained a complex hunter-gatherer culture based on semi-sedentary management of fisheries. Hereditary slavery was practiced extensively until it was outlawed by the United States. An inland group, known as the Inland Tlingit, inhabits the far northwestern part of the province of British Columbia and the southern Yukon in Canada.

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