Tsimshian people
Also known as Ts’msyan, Tsm'syen, Chemmesyans
thumb|Tsimshian Nisga'a stone mask, made around 1870 - greenish hard stone ([[Gabbro), pigment; from the Alphonse Pinart collection, Musée du quai Branly in Paris. This stone mask has a twin, without apertures for eyes, residing in the Canadian Museum of History. Separated over one hundred years, the two masks were reunited 1975, when the Paris mask travelled to Canada to appear in the exhibition "Images Stone: B.C." It was then that the relationship between the two masks, expressions of the same face, was re-discovered.]]
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Tsimshian
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Tsʼmsyen
- Ethnic group.native_name_lang
- tsi
- Ethnic group.image
- Ed-Bryant.jpg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Tsimshian drumming in 1999
- Ethnic group.population
- 8,162
- Ethnic group.region1
- CanadaBritish Columbia
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 5,910
- Ethnic group.region2
- United StatesAlaska
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 2,252
- Ethnic group.religions
- Christianity (Episcopalianism, Presbyterianism, Methodism)Animism
- Ethnic group.languages
- EnglishCoast Tsimshian
Article
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Culture
- Ethnobotany
- Tribes
- Clans
- Treaty process
- Language
- Notable Tsimshian people
- Anthropologists and other scholars who have worked with the Tsimshian
- Missionaries who proselytized the Tsimshian
- See also
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|Tsimshian Nisga'a stone mask, made around 1870 - greenish hard stone ([[Gabbro), pigment; from the Alphonse Pinart collection, Musée du quai Branly in Paris. This stone mask has a twin, without apertures for eyes, residing in the Canadian Museum of History. Separated over one hundred years, the two masks were reunited 1975, when the Paris mask travelled to Canada to appear in the exhibition "Images Stone: B.C." It was then that the relationship between the two masks, expressions of the same face, was re-discovered.]]
The Tsimshian (; ) are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their communities are mostly in coastal British Columbia in Terrace and Prince Rupert, and Metlakatla, Alaska on Annette Island, the only reservation in Alaska.