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The Tlingit (pronounced /ˈklink-it/ or /ˈklink-it/ in English; sometimes spelled Tlinkit) are an...

The Tlingit (pronounced /ˈklink-it/ or /ˈklink-it/ in English; sometimes spelled Tlinkit) are an Indigenous people of northwestern America. Their name for themselves is Lingít "people" (pronounced [ɬɪŋkɪt]). The Russian name КО-ЛЮ-ЖИ (Koloshi) (from an Aleut term for the lower lip piercing) or the related German name Koulischen may be encountered in older historical literature, such as Shelikov's 1796 map of Russian America. The Tlingit are a matrilineal society that developed a complex hunter-gatherer culture in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaska coast and the Alexander Archipelago. An inland subgroup, known as the Inland Tlingit, inhabit the far northwestern part of the province of British Columbia and the southern Yukon Territory of Canada. The greatest territory historically occupied by the Tlingit extended from the Portland Canal along the present border between Alaska and British Columbia, north to the coast just southeast of the Copper River delta. The Tlingit occupied almost all of the Alexander Archipelago, except the southernmost end of Prince of Wales Island and its surroundings, where the Kaigani Haida moved just before the first encounters with European