Tagish
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A group of native people in northwestern Canada and their language
- proper noun
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Tagish
- As Tagish Athapaskan elder Angela Sidney told Julie Cruikshank, 'Well, I've tried to live my life right, just like a story' (Cruikshank 1990:1).
Examples
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Angela Sidney is a well-respected member of the Tagish people, known for her storytelling.
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Angela Sidney, a woman of Tagish and Inland Tlingit ancestry, tells a story about a shaman named Malal, who told people in 1912, "This ground is going to burn all over."
Academic text (1994) -
Learning the Tagish language has become important for preserving the culture of the community.
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Many traditions of the Tagish Indigenous people have been passed down through generations.
Surface Forms
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Etymology
Tagish is the name that an Indigenous group used for themselves and their language, so the word can mean a person from that group or the language they speak.
