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Prince Rupert First Nations Museum  - Page 1

Classic old Prince Rupert houses

Sunken garden near the Prince Rupert Court House

The first nations of the northern Northwest Coast are: the Tsimshian, Nisga’a, Gitksan, Tlingit, Haida, Tahltan, Heiltsuk and Haisla. They have a common language of art and ceremony. Through this they express their identity as defined by history and communicated in oral narratives, songs and crests. They are also linked to each others as members of one of the four clans – Killer whale, Raven, Wolf and eagle.

 

 

 

Shell Middens are used to record human habitation in this case at least back 5000 years