Tahltan people

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The Tahltan people are an Indigenous First Nations group of northwestern British Columbia, Canada, with a distinct Athabaskan language, culture, and traditional territory in the Stikine River region.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Tahltan people canonical 5
Tahltan 2

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Athabaskan-speaking people
First Nations people
asserts Aboriginal title to traditional territory
contemporaryReligion Christianity
country Canada
culturalRegion Plateau peoples of British Columbia
Subarctic
ethnicGroupOf British Columbia
governedBy Indian Act (Canada)
linked to: Indian Act
hasBandGovernment Iskut First Nation
Tahltan First Nation
linked to: Tahltan Nation
hasCulturalRevitalizationEfforts land-based education programs
language revitalization programs
hasOrganization Iskut Band Council
Tahltan Band Council
linked to: Tahltan Nation

Tahltan Central Government
linked to: Tahltan Nation
hasPopulationRegion Dease Lake area
Iskut Indian Reserve No. 6
Telegraph Creek Indian Reserve No. 6
hasResourceIssues mining development in Tahltan territory
hasTribalCouncil Tahltan Central Government
linked to: Tahltan Nation
language Tahltan language
languageFamily Athabaskan languages
Na-Dene languages
linked to: Na-Dene
locatedIn northwestern British Columbia
mainCommunity Dease Lake, British Columbia
Iskut, British Columbia
Telegraph Creek, British Columbia
linked to: Telegraph Creek
partOf Dene peoples
province British Columbia
recognizedAs Status First Nations
recognizedBy Government of Canada
relatedEthnicGroup Kaska Dena
Tagish people
Tlingit people
religion Indigenous spirituality
traditionalEconomy fur trade
traditionalLanguageStatus endangered
traditionalRiver Stikine River
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
trapping
traditionalTerritory Stikine River region
linked to: Stikine Region

northwestern British Columbia
usesWritingSystem Latin script for Tahltan language

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dene peoples hasSubgroup Tahltan people
Northern British Columbia hasIndigenousPeoples Tahltan
linked to: Tahltan people
Kaska hasNeighboringLanguages Tahltan
linked to: Tahltan people
Tahltan River namedAfter Tahltan people
Sekani people neighboringGroup Tahltan people