Word: tsimshian
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...soars over river entrances, we see salmon massing in numbers that are just a memory in many of the dammed rivers elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest. King Pacific heli-fishes some 40 rivers within a one-hour flying radius of the lodge by special agreement with the local Tsimshian nation. Some of the Tsimshian work as fishing guides at the lodge, and they also take guests to view and photograph the rare white Kermode bear, a subspecies of black bear found only in these coastal forests...
...contention," Feder declares, "is that anyone can appreciate Indian art, regardless of his knowledge, background or previous experience." Perhaps-but in a strictly limited way. Few people could encounter the carved ceremonial masks of the Northwest Coast Indians, the Tlingit. Kwakiutl or Tsimshian, with their exquisite shell-inlay work and flowing, knife-blade forms that so inexplicably resemble archaic Chinese bronze decoration, without feeling some instant response to the vitality of their stylistic language. Through their art runs a supreme capacity to make sensation concrete: what European artist, for instance, could develop a more concise epigram of a grizzly bear...
Little but sturdy is the village of Metlakatla, on rugged Annette Island in Alaska's Panhandle, 650 miles north of Seattle. Religion started Metlakatla, and religion has kept it going. In 1887 a Church of England missionary named William Duncan and a band of Tsimshian Indians, harried by differences with the Canadian Government and the Established Church, left their cooperative village in British Columbia and settled on Annette Island, in U. S. territory. Four years later an act of Congress gave them the land for their own. Today, in their fisheries and canneries, Metlakatla's 466 inhabitants make...
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