Tsimshian

Lucy Spaulding and her sister Lizzie were among them.

The Tsimshian girls from Metlakatla in southeastern Alaska traveled thousands of kilometers to get there.

Not long after, they both became sick, and Lucy died at Carlisle.

Last month, over 100 years after her death, Lucy Spaulding's remains were disinterred from the institution's cemetery and sent on a journey home.

They attended Duncan's school, you know.

Duncan had other missionaries here for teachers, teaching them.

And Duncan taught them in both our language, Tsimshian language, and in the English language, teaching them how to be, you know, women of the house or sewing and cleaning and cooking and taking care of other young children, you know.

And, you know, they really didn't have to go because it wasn't, you know, it wasn't higher education for the ladies there.

It would not be possible, nor would it be wise to attempt a compilation of all the fragments of this extensive myth.

Especial thanks are due to Dr. Franz Boas for the Tsetsetout and Tsimshian myths, to John R. Swanton for the Tlingit myths, to Edward Russell Nelson for the Eskimo myths, to Ferdinand Schnitter, and to others.

Thanks are also due for courtesies in securing photographs to Mr.

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Chapter 11 of Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Catherine Barry-Judson.

This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Chapter 11: Raven and the Seals, from the Tsimshian.

As Raven traveled along, he came to a house where a man lived near the edge of the water.

Yeah.

Colby is from the indigenous Tsimshian people from a place called Metlakatla in Alaska, and he came to CHOP to show native solidarity with Black protesters.

Sgaay Laahl Lii Pum Tsagsx Dawayu.

Gishpuuwada dii ptagu.

My Tsimshian name, Sgaay Laahl Lii Pum Tsagsx, translates to Peaceful Thunder.

We're here to talk with Colby because he was there minutes after Antonio Mays Jr. was shot.

He kept showing up on livestreams.

I learned under David Albert Boxley and David Robert Boxley.

They're like Tsimshian master artists, and David has carved over, like, 70 totem poles in his lifetime.

I, um, am a visual artist.

Um, I kind of jump around.

'Cause, like, we thought we were gonna move to LA and, you know, do all this stuff, like, totally away from, you know, the culture and, and home.

Um, and then it just worked out that, uh, I think the summer after that or a couple summers after that, it was Celebration in Juneau.

So that's a biennial dance festival where thousands of, like, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian dance groups come to Juneau, Alaska, and it's just, like, four days straight of singing and dancing all the time, like, from morning until night.

Um, there are two stages.

Of course, we know hardly anything of these Indians during the first two centuries of European settlement in America.

Not until the 18th 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, Kwadilaknutka, and Kootenai.

It is thought, however, that nearly all the Pacific Indians belong to one kindred stock.

There are, it is true, many distinct languages between California and Alaska, but the physical appearance and characteristics of the natives show a similarity throughout.

Yeah.

And there was a strong reconciliation vibe there, as you would expect, with the Tsimshian community being so significant.

So there was indigenous greetings.

And Herb Pond even spoke some Tsimshian himself when he started his remarks.

So I've been watching for some of these protocol things.

Herb, Herb has, uh...