Tagish
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The Tagish or Tagish Kwan are a group Athabaskan First Nation people that lived around Tagish Lake and Marsh Lake, in the Yukon Territory of Canada. Tagish people intermarried heavily with Tlingit people from the coast and the Tagish language is almost extinct. Today Tagish people live mainly in Carcross or Whitehorse, Yukon and are members of the Carcross/Tagish or Kwanlin Dün First Nations.
Members of the Tagish First Nation made the gold discovery that led to the Klondike Gold Rush: Keish (Skookum Jim Mason), Shaaw Tláa (Kate Carmack]] and Káa goox (Dawson Charlie).
The word Tagish also refers to the Athabaskan language spoken by the ancestors of these people.
Tagish means "it (spring ice) is breaking up" and gave its name to the lake.
External Links
- Yukon Native Language Centre (http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ynlc/YNLCinfo/Tagish.html)
- Carcross/Tagish First Nation (http://www.ctfn.ca/index.html)
- Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tgx)
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