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. 23, 2023
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 placed their crests on almost everything they owned—ladles, blankets, amulets, armor—to express solidarity with their clan and kinship with animals they considered “patrons.”
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
They seem to be closely related to the Tlingits of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon, and may readily have found their way here by passing from stream to stream in which salmon abound.
From Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir
