Tlingit
noun
a member of any of a number of Indigenous peoples of the coastal regions of southern Alaska and northern British Columbia.
Tlingits
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pluralof Tlingit.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Wrangell is one of the oldest non-Alaska Native settlements in the state, founded in 1811 when Russians began trading with Tlingits, according to a state database of Alaska communities.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Tlingits, Russians, the British and Americans all accounted for historical influences on Wrangell.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Tlingits sometimes depicted clan images on the gabled fronts of their houses, and indoors on decorative wood screens.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
“To continue to evolve, and to maintain the sacred traditions of the different arts … that’s what Tlingits would have been doing regardless of a Western imposition or not. It’s what I do with poetry.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2014
Even as late as 1861, 7800 Tlingits held 828 slaves.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
