Tlingit
Language Family: Tlingit
Tlingit language family area
The Tlingit occupied the coast of southeastern Alaska from Mount St. Elias to the Portland Canal, with the exception of part of Prince of Wales Island, which had been occupied by the Haida shortly before contact with Europeans. Like the other tribes of the North Pacific Coast, their staple food was fish (principally halibut, salmon and eulachon), but the flesh of seals, porpoises and sea otters, and an abundance of berries, roots, shellfish and seaweed, gave their diet a considerable measure of variety. (IC)

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