Crossword-Solution: TSIMSHIAN
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| Clue | Answers |
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| SKEENA River Indian language (Brit. Columbia) | 2 answers |
| BRITISH Columbia Indian language | 4 answers |
| NORTH American Indian language | 41 answers |
| RED Indian language | 41 answers |
| AMERICAN Indian language | 43 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
LASDOR
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with TSIMSHIAN (5)
Thus the Tsimshian Indians of British Columbia believe that twins control the weather; therefore they pray to wind and rain, "Calm down, breath of the twins." Further, they think that the wishes of twins are always fulfilled; hence twins are feared, because they can harm the man they hate.
Not until the eighteenth century, when Russian traders began to frequent the Pacific coast and the Spanish and English pushed their voyages into the North Pacific,--the Tlingit of the far north, the Salish, Tsimshian, Haida, Kwakiutl-Nootka and Kutenai.
The development of the plot of the story, further-more, will on the whole exhibit clearly what is considered right and what wrong." [Footnote 15: Boaz, Franz, Tsimshian Mythology: Bureau American Ethnology, vol.
For example, in the Carrier, one of the Déné dialects of western Canada, the word _tha_ means 3 things; _thane_, 3 persons; _that_, 3 times; _thatoen_, in 3 places; _thauh_, in 3 ways; _thailtoh_, all of the 3 things; _thahoeltoh_, all of the 3 persons; and _thahultoh_, all of the 3 times.[138] In the Tsimshian language of British Columbia we find seven distinct sets of numerals "which are used for various classes of objects that are counted.
Hence the slave trade is an important part of the commerce of all the tribes up to Alaska.[680] In 1841 it was reckoned that one third of the entire population from northern British Columbia to southern Alaska were "slaves of the most helpless and abject description." "The great supply was obtained by trade with the southern Indians, in which the Tsimshian acted as middlemen.