TAHITAN INDIANS IN CANADA

THESE INDIANS LIVE IN THE SOUTH EASTERNMOST PART OF THE NAHANE TRIBE. THEY SPEAK ATHAPASKAN. THEY HUNT BY THE DRAINAGE BASIN OF STIKINE RIVER AS WELL AS ISKUT RIVER. SOME OF THEM ARE IN ALASKA. AND B.C. IN THE EARLY DAYS THEY HAD PLENTY OF SALMON AND THE STIKINE TRIBE OF THE TLINGIT WERE FRIENDLY WITH TAHITAN.THEY EXCHANGED GOODS AND PRODUCTS. IN ANCIENT TIMES THERE STORAGE AND LIVING UNITS WERE USED FOR SALMON FISHING. THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS. THEY LIVED MOSTLY OUTDOORS MOST OF THE YEAR AND WERE MEAT EATERS BY CHOICE AND ATE FISH IN BETWEEN SEASONS.

THEIR HOUSES WERE SMALL CAMPS OF SAMPLINGS BOUND TOGETHER WITH BARK ROPES.. IN CAMP THEY MADE A LEAN TO OF BARK LAID OVER POLES. TODAY THEY LIVE IN CANVAS TENTS. AFTER 1874 THEY BUILT A SUBSTANTIAL LOG VILLAGE. TAHIAN MEANS "WHERE THE SPRING
WATER STOPS" IN 1874 AFTER THE SETTLERS STRUCK GOLD, THEY BUILT A SUBSTANTIAL LOG VILLAGE 1/2 MILE FROM THE JUNCTION OF TAHIAN AND ST. KINE. THIS A PLACE IS CALLED
WHERE THE SPRING WATER STOPS". THEY BUILT A NUMBER OF HOUSES ON TELEGRAPH CREEK.THEY ARE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE TLINGIT. THE FAMILY IS THE UNIT OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE IN WHICH ALL INDIVIDUALITY IS MERGED. WITHIN THE FAMILIES ARE FOUR PARTIES WHICH ARE RECOGNIZED BY ANIMALS:
1) THE WOLF PARTY HAS A WOLF EMBLEM AND IS REPRESENTED BY BROWN BEAR, THE KILLER WHALE, AND SHARK. THEY FIRST SETTLED IN THIS COUNTRY AND FOUNDED THIS TRIBE.
2) NANYIEE - WOLF PARTY DWELLED IN THE HEADWATERS TAKU RIVER. THEY WERE ASSOCIATED WITH BROWN BEAR, KILLER WHALE, AND SHARK.
3) THE WOLF PART OR TALARKOTEEN REPRESENTED BY WOLF CREST. THEY WERE IN THE INTERIOR BY PEACE RIVER THEY ARE NEARLY EXTINCT.
4)KARTCHOTTEE, OR RAVEN PARTY HAS A RAVEN AND FROG EMBLEM.

THIS TRIBE LIVES BY HUNTING AND TRAPPING MAMMALS, BIRDS AND BIG GAMES. THEY HAVE BECOME GOOD GUIDES AS WELL AS WORK FOR TRADING. COMPANIES. THEY HAD A POPULATION OF 230 IN 1909. THEY ARE HONEST AND AGREEABLE PEOPLE.

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