TLINGIT

BELIEFS/CUSTOMS/RITUALS

• Have potlatches
• Wear black eye paint for sumemr protection
• Huge dances
• Believes in a creator Kah-shu-goon-yah
• Creator controls,sun,moon and stars

TRIBAL ORGANIZATION

• Children do not go to school
• Children learn by watching their parents
• Had three principal groups, southern tlingit,northern tlingit,and the people of the gulf coast
• Lives on own reservation
• Each community had its own chief

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

• Alaska, yukon, pacific, british columbia
• Cold or warm climate
• Rainforest environment
• Deer, eagles
• The tribe hunt the deer for survival

CULTURE

• Fishing people
• Hunted deer
• Plank houses
• Berries and roots
• Dont go to school. They have carving arts

COMMUNICATION

• Tlingit language
• Tlingit is an endangered language
• Today only elders know the language
• Write in tlingit

GENDER ROLES

• Men hunted and fished
• Women gathered plants
• Women cooked and child care
• Men sometimes went to war
• Both helped children learn

HEALTH

• Purified people
• Called spirit doctors
• They could cure the sick
• They would help win wars

VOCABULARY

• Endangered- in danger of being extinct
• Reservation-where they lived
• Deer- animal they hunt