FDI - Gitsan

The Gitsan were a sedentary hunter tribal group of the north central British Columbia. Many of the leading families of the Gitsan were Na-Dene in origin including interior Athapaskan and Tlingit. They were located on the upper course of the Skeena River. They had only minimal early contact with Whites.

Aboriginal Locations (Villages)

BC Gitanmaax, Kispiox, Kitgargas or Kisgagas, Kegukla, Kitwancool, Kitwanga, Kuldo or Qaldo, Meamskinisht

Present Locations

BC Gitanmaax, Hazleton

Gitwangak, Kitwanga

Glen Vowell, Hazleton

Hagwilget, New Hazleton

Kispiox, Hazleton

Kitsegukla, South Hazleton

Kitwancool, Kitwanga

Year	*History*
1822	Fort Kilmers established, White contact began
1826	Fort Connolly established
1831	Fort Simpson established
1835	Fort Essington established
187X	Minor Skeena gold rush
1876	Cannery established at Skeena
1898	Klondike gold rush

Year	BC Population	Source
1700	1,200	NAHDB calculation
1800	1,200	NAHDB calculation
1900	1,100	NAHDB calculation
1904	1,120	Official
2000	5,200	NAHDB calculation
2001	5,403	Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

Gitsan Tribe Sites:

Canadian Indians Win a Ruling Vindicating Their Oral History http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E4D91E3DF93AA35751C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

Copper Creations http://www.coppercreations.ca/gitxsan.htm

Gitanmaax Band http://www.gitanmaax.com/

Gitanmaax Band Log Office http://www.100-mile-house-log-homes.com/log_office.html

Gitksan Government Commission http://www.ggc.gitxsan.com/index.shtml

Gitsan Landscape Perception ... http://web.grinnell.edu/anthropology/ethnoecology.html

Gitxsan http://www.firstnationsseeker.ca/Gitksan.html

Gitxsan Chief's Office http://www.gitxsan.com/

Gitxsan Chiefs Protect Amazay Lake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr_QbfSZ2iM

Gitxsan Experience in Cultural Survival http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/Unesco/collier.htm

Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs http://www.bctreaty.net/nations_3/gitxsan.html

Gitxan Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=git

Gitxsan Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=git

Gitxsan Model: ... http://www.conservationgis.org/native/native2.html

Gitxsan-Nisga'a (Nass-Gitksan) http://www.native-languages.org/nisgaa-gitxsan.htm

Gitzan People http://www.cultures.com/links/gitxsan.html

Gitxan Treaty Society http://www.gov.bc.ca/arr/negotiation/first_nations_in_the_process/gitxsan.htm

Hazleton Community Profile http://www.bcahc.ca/irpbc/default.asp?pageid=695

Kispiox http://www.kispioxadventures.com/english/pp/people.htm

Kispiox Valley http://www.kispiox.com/

Kitwanga http://www.britishcolumbia.com/regions/towns/?townID=3610

'Ksan Historical Village http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nr/ecd/bc/khs_e.html

'Ksan Historical Village http://www.ksan.org/

New Hazleton History http://www.newhazelton.ca/history.php

'San Arts http://www.ksan.org/html/arts.htm

Vanishing British Columbia http://www.michaelkluckner.com/bciw10kitseguklachurch.html

Wilkerson Art http://www.wilkersonart.com/

*Ethnie:*	GITSAN (GITXSAN, KITSAN)
*Language:*	Gitxsan
*Family:*	Tsimshian
*Stock:*	Chinookan
*Phylum:*	Macro-Penutian
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwestern