Kitwanga
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Kitwanga or Gitwangak is in the Skeena region of west central British Columbia. Among the Hazelton and Bulkley Mountain Ranges, the place is on the north shore of the Skeena River, east of the Kitwang
Gitwangak Battle Hill, Kitwanga, 2017.
Totem poles, Kitwanga, 2017.
St. Paul's Anglican Church and bell tower, Gitwangak, 2017.
Cable ferry, Kitwanga, 1925.
Gitxsan
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Gitxsan are an Indigenous people in Canada whose home territory comprises most of the area known as the Skeena Country in English. Gitksan territory encompasses approximately 35,000 km2 of land, from
Kitwanga
…Gitwangak was formerly called Kitwanga, with variations such as Gitwangar, Kitwangagh, or Kitwangar. According to legend, Lutraisuh, daughter of a Gitxsan noble family, was kidnapped by a Haida war party. After bearing three sons to a blind chief, she escaped with the surviving third son. The boy, called…
Gitxsan on the banks of the Skeena River at Hazelton, 1901