Tahltan
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Tahltan |
| Ethnie: | TAHLTAN |
| Dialects | Tahltan |
| Language: | Tahltan-Kaska |
| Family: | Athapaskan |
| Stock: | Nuclear Na-Dene |
| Phylum: | Na-Dene |
| Macro-Culture: | Rocky Mountian Western Plateau |
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| The Tahltan were a nomadic hunter/gatherer tribe that relied heavily on fishing. They occupied the basin of the Stikine River down to the mouth of the Iskut and Dease Rivers half way to McDane Creek, the northern sources of the Nass and some of the southern branches of the Taku. They suffered from the White influx, and particularly form smallpox. |
| Aboriginal Locations: Divisions |
| BC Gikahnegah, Lakneip, Tahltan, Teetch-aranee, Thludlin, Tratuckka, Tsaqudartsee |
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| Year | History |
| 1793 | Alexander Mackenzie became the first white man to travel through territories while looking for fur-trading areas for the North West Company |
| 1815 | Met Ross Cox |
| 1821 | Fort Alexandria established |
| 1826 | Carriers armed, Chilcotin moved notrth |
| 1829 | Fort Chilcotin established |
| 1857 | Cariboo gold rush |
| 1862 | Smallpox epidemic |
| 1864 | Chilcotin War |
| 1884 | The Potlatch was outlawed |
| 1914 | First mission schools compelter |
| 1918 | Spanish Flu epidemic |
| 1951 | Potlatch ban repealed |
| Year | BC Population | Source | |
| 1700 | 1,000 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1800 | 1,000 | Kroeber, Teit | |
| 1800 | 1,000 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1837 | 500 | Wilson | |
| 1850 | 300 | Duff | |
| 1900 | 250 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1909 | 229 | CDIA | |
| 1934 | 240 | CDIA | |
| 1949 | 357 | CDIA | |
| 1959 | 503 | CDIA | |
| 1798 | 793 | CDIA | |
| 2000 | 2,000 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 2005 | 2,189 | Indian and Northern Affairs Canada |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Kaska, Tagish, Tsetsaut |
| TahltanTribe Sites: |
| Iskut http://www.britishcolumbia.com/regions/towns/?townID=3606 |
| Tahltan Band Council http://www.tahltan.ca/ |
| Tahltan Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/canada/tahltanindianhist.htm |
| Tahltan Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahltan_language |
| Tahltan Language http://www.ydli.org/langs/tahltan.htm |
| Tahltan Language Plaque http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/tribute/tahltan-e.html |
| Tahltan Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=tht |
| Tahltan Nation http://www.gov.bc.ca/arr/negotiation/first_nations_in_the_process/tahltan_nation.htm |
| Tahltan Nation http://independentmedia.ca/survivingcanada/2005-07-july_6_tahltan_nation.html |
| Tahltan Nation Development Corporation http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/app/ccc/search/navigate.do?language=eng&portal=1&estblmntNo=234567036825&profile=completeProfile |
| Tahltan Web http://www.pris.bc.ca/framst/tahltan.html |
| Telegraph Creek http://www.tricorp.ca/pages/villpgs/telegraph.html |
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