Maps of Tsimshianic

North America: Northwest Coastal Peoples (The Canadian Encyclopedia)-REPLACED_BY_GODDARD_MAP

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Western Canada: Northwest Coastal People

Source:   Findlay, Heather, Anna Sajecki and Melissa Bremer. 2007. Canada's First Peoples. Based on The Canadian Encyclopedia. 2010. Historica Dominion.
Date Digitized:   16 September 2010

Map Description:
This map shows the locations of some of the first peoples of western Canada along the Pacific Coast of Canada - languages which cross the border into Alaska indicate only their Canadian extent. For instance, Tlingit is spoken all the way down to the coast, but this is not shown on the map. These peoples arrived in the area around 10,000 years ago and formed several distinct groups with many unique languages; some estimate that there were nineteen languages or more present in the region, distributed across seventy or more nations. This map indicates language subgroupings.



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Northern North America: Tsimshianic: Time of Contact



Tsimshianic in Northern North America at the Time of Contact

Source:   Golla, Victor, Ives Goddard, Lyle Camplbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2007. North America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages. 41. Oxford: Routledge.
Date Digitized:   May 2010.

Map Description:
The polygons represent areas where Tsimshianic languages were spoken when they were first encountered and knowledge of them was recorded.

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.

Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Northern North America: Time of Contact) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups at the time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


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