A Study of Matrilineal Descent from the Perspective of the Tlingit NexA'di Eagles

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Campbell, Chris Rabich
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1989
• Subjects: Athapascan Indians; Customs; History; Human migration; Kinship; Marriage; Oral history; Social interaction; Tlingit Indians; Alaska; Southeastern; British Columbia; Prince of Wales Island; Yukon; Canada; Stikine; Nisga'a; Arctic; tlingit; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64702

The Athapaskans of the boreal forest of northwestern Canada and Alaska and the Indians of the northern Northwest Coast shared a similar social organization. It was based on the division of a group into moieties and/or phratries, tracing matrilineal descent, practicing exogamy, matrilocality, and sha...