Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Tsimshian (/ˈsɪmʃiən/; Sm’algyax: Ts’msyan) are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Tsimshian translates to Inside the Skeena River. Their communities are in British Columbia and Alaska around Terrace and Prince Rupert and the southernmost corner of Alaska on Annette Island. There are approximately 10000 Tsimshian. Their culture is matrilineal with a societal structure based on a clan system properly referred to as a moiety.
