Haida-Tlingit-Tsimshian Mythology

Haida-Tlingit-Tsimshian Mythology

The mythology Haida-Tlingit-Tsimshian includes the following Native American peoples: Haida, Tlingit, Tsimshian 

The Haida are a Native American people of the west coast of Canada and the northern United States, as well as a southeastern part of Alaska, along the Pacific coast, and in the Haida Gwaii archipelago in particular. The Haida are said to have occupied the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia since the end of the ice age and the population there began to be important 5,000 years ago.

The Tlingit are an indigenous North American ethnicity, specifically an Alaska Native people. They occupy Southeast Alaska, a territory that includes the coastal area of Southeast Alaska and the islands facing it.

The Tsimshians (Sm'algyax: Ts'msyanlisten)) are an indigenous people of North America. Their communities originated in the estuary of the Skeena River (the name Tsimshian means "People of the Skeena River"), around the present towns of Terrace and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, before settling in the 19^e century on Annette Island, south of Alaska, in Metlakatla.