Kitasoo

Kitasoo

The Kitasoo are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian people in Canada and inhabit, along with Xai'xais people of Heiltsuk ethnic affiliation, the village of Klemtu, British Columbia. The name "Kitasoo" derives from the Tsimshian name "Gidestsu", from "git-" (people of) and "disdzuu," which refers to a large, tiered house-depression. The Kitasoo, along with the Gitga'ata Tsimshians at Hartley Bay, B.C., are often classed as "Southern Tsimshian," their traditional language being the southern dialect of the Tsimshian language.

The anthropologist Marius Barbeau recorded in 1947 that one John Starr was of the "Klemtu" tribe and held the hereditary name Lagax'niitsk.

External links

* [http://www.kitasoo.org/index.html The Kitasoo/Xai'Xais Nation]
* [http://www.centralcoastbc.com/klemtu/intro.asp An Introduction to Klemtu]

Bibliography

* Barbeau, Marius (1950) "Totem Poles." 2 vols. (Anthropology Series 30, National Museum of Canada Bulletin 119.) Ottawa: National Museum of Canada.

* Miller, Jay (1981) "Moieties and Cultural Amnesia: Manipulation of Knowledge in a Pacific Northwest Coast Native Community," "Arctic Anthropology," vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 23-32.

* Miller, Jay (1982) "Tsimshian Moieties and Other Clarifications," "Northwest Anthropological Research Notes," vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 148-164.


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