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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"tlingit"”.
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Tlingit tunic design: visual definition, meaning, and identity
… since 1730. Historically, the highly decorated Tlingit tunics were worn at potlatches, as the first layer of regalia. The tunics were often covered with dance aprons. bibs, and blankets. Potlatches are still held today but with less frequency. Today, Celebration is held every two years, so that …
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Mapping Our Return: Glacier Stories and Knowledge Production in Climate Change
Over 250 years ago, a young Tlingit woman called to a glacier that displaced the Xunaa Tlingit and beckoned to the U.S. National Park Service. Today, in the midst of climate change, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is once again undergoing a huge transformation; glaciers are disappearing and …
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The grammar of Q : Q-particles and the nature of Wh-fronting, as revealed by the Wh-questions of Tlingit
… from the demonstration that wh-fronting in Tlingit (Na-Dene; Alaska, British Columbia, Yukon) does not involve a syntactic relationship between the interrogative C and the wh-word. Rather, it involves a probe/Agree relation between C and an overt Q-particle c-commanding the wh-word. Fronting …
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Assessing cumulative human impacts on northern woodland caribou with traditional ecological knowledge and resource selection functions
… herd, in the territory of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation (TRTFN), British Columbia, is less affected by development than southern herds. However, recent low productivity in this herd suggests that the impacts of development (i.e., roads, mines, cabins and towns) may be accumulating. …
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Assessing cumulative human impacts on northern woodland caribou with traditional ecological knowledge and resource selection functions
… herd, in the territory of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation (TRTFN), British Columbia, is less affected by development than southern herds. However, recent low productivity in this herd suggests that the impacts of development (i.e., roads, mines, cabins and towns) may be accumulating. …
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Using ancient DNA to infer impacts of European colonization on first nations populations in coastal British Columbia, Canada
… Nations groups, but also to Alaskan Haida and Tlingit Indigenous groups as well. The Y-chromosome population history was also explored using high-resolution Y-STR data sets and SNPs. No STR haplotypes were shared between any present-day and ancient population, and the majority of present-day …
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Formal and philological inquiries into the nature of interrogatives, indefinites, disjunction, and focus in Sinhala and other languages
… in Sinhala, with comparison to Malayalam, Tlingit, and Japanese. The central part of the study concerns the proper syntactic and semantic analysis of Q[uestion]-particles (including Sinhala ""da"", Malayalam ""-oo"", Japanese ""ka""), which, in many languages, appear not only in …