Ruth Hallows weaving "Nüüm Batsda Da Gyemsax - Carry Us Home" (photo courtesy @sydneyakagiphoto; all other images Ruth Hallows/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) This article is part of a series ...

At his very first Native art show, David A. Boxley, now a renowned Tsimshian carver and culture bearer, carved Tlingit and Haida totem poles from books. He used model paint instead of acrylics, and ...

LANDSTUHL, Germany -- In celebration of National American Indian Heritage Month, U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center hosted Tsimshian artist Edward E. Bryant at ...

The Tsimshian people first settled American land over 6,000 years ago. This image was captured in 1890, after the fateful arrival of European settlers. Library and Archives Canada Humans tend to view ...

Mique'l Dangeli teaches students how to bake salmon fins. Dangeli moved to British Columbia to teach Tsimshian culture in her ancestors' traditional territory, but faces an immigration fight to live ...

The piercing blue-green gaze is unsettling. Abalone shell eyes stare intently from the carved mask under a grisly crown of bear claws. In the indigenous world of the Tsimshian, the mask portrays a ...

David Robert Boxley has been carving since he was six years old. As the son of renowned formline artist David A. Boxley, the younger Boxley spent his youth immersed in Tsimshian art and culture. In an ...

KINGSTON, Wash. – The minute David Boxley strikes his deer hide drum, everything changes. An empty stage quickly fills with the Git Hoan dancers, stealth in each dancer's stride, driven by respect for ...

Boxley described the Anglican missionary who came to northern British Columbia in the late nineteenth century as “so very successful” in moving Tsimshian (pronounced like sim-she-ann) people away from ...

If downtown Anchorage has been half asleep during the pandemic, Johon Atkinson helped wake it up this week. As Atkinson sang and beat his drum in front of Historic City Hall, his Tsimshian words and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The use of plant resources in two Northern Tsimshian habitation sites—Ginakangeek (GbTh-2) and Psacelay (GbTh-4)—can be mapped from recovered ...

In the years after Europeans arrived in the Americas, Indigenous communities were ravaged by disease that the colonists brought with them, from influenza to smallpox. New genetic research published in ...