Talk:Tlingit

message: Hi; I've just made the page for Taku River Tlingit First Nation and am asking someone who knows more to check it; I may be wrong in what I've stated, that they includes the Desleinn kwaan - they do have reserves on Teslin Lake, but it's not clear if there are any inhabitants (they may be fishing reserves, e.g.) and there's a separate Teslin Tlingit Council at Teslin, Yukon which must be Desleinn kwaan.  Can someone who might know the details please make any needed changes to those pages?  Inland Tlinkit/Inland Tlingit hasn't yet been made and maybe only need be a disambig page to those goernments, although really Atlin people and Teslin people could be made as ethno/history articles, in the same way that Auke people, Taku people etc e≈ist separate from any Native Alaskan government articles that may cover them.....Skookum1 (talk) 19:54, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Canadian kwaans - ??

message: This has now been changed to " or ", which is clearly redundant and is furthermore not very good usage of IPA.  Someone familiar with the topic, please try to correct it. Lfh (talk) 21:23, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation, again

message: This line irks me a bit "Their name for themselves is Lingít". .... as if Tlingit and Tlinkit weren't.  The L-only spelling is just the modern Tlingit language orthography, so far as I understand it.  It's not like the other two spelling aren't what they call themselves.  Just different spellings; the subtext when I see stuff like this is "the white man got it wrong"....well, no, when modern orthographies were developed for native languages there was an effort to use romanization differently, with some letters not meaning what they mean in English or other euro-languages.  I mean, is there a difference in pronunciation between "Tlingit", "Tlinkit" or "Lingit"??  In English or in the Tlingit language?>?Skookum1 (talk) 04:53, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Lingit / Tlingit / Tlinkit

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Chipewyan people which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 09:14, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: The article could benefit from a clearer explanation of the concept of the at.oow.
The Tlingits passed down at.oow(s) or blankets that represented trust. Only a Tlingit Indian can inherit one but they can also pass it down to someone they trust, who becomes responsible for caring for it but does not rightfully own it.
Someone reading this would not whether at.oows and blankets are two different things or if at.oow is a Tlingit term for blanket (which I gather would not be correct). Also, the unusual (but I take it correct) punctuation of the word would be likely to confuse people. Should the word be placed in italics? 850 C (talk) 00:52, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  at.oow(s) 

message: Jean Taylor's entry links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Taylor but that appears to be a different person than the Tlingit artist Jean Taylor. The artist's own website bio is http://www.jtaylorfineart.com/biography.html but I'm not sure if there are good sources available for writing a Wikipedia article to link to instead. Spidra (talk) 07:39, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing it out. I've removed the entry for now, as a standard prerequisite for inclusion in these lists is if the entry has its own Wikipedia article to establish notability. AtticusX (talk) 13:56, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistaken Link in "Notable Tlingit People" 

message: In the language section I believe that adding a bit about the "alphabet" or "lettering" would be good information. It would add more to the article without drawing on. Even just saying how many vowels and consonants would be nice to see in a piece like this. I don't think that adding the whole alphabet chart is necessary, but just saying how many letters and the different parts of the mouth used to pronounce things would be information many would find interesting. 
The language section is small and I think that it could be expanded a bit more.
Reference: BEING AND PLACE AMONG THE TLINGIT, By: Thomas F. Thornton
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trdixon62 (talk • contribs) 01:31, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language section 

message: It seems that the list of ḵwáans omits at least one clan, 
the Daḵl’aweidí clan of Angoon.  Is that a mistake, or have I misunderstood something? —Mark Dominus (talk) 17:19, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete clan list? 

message: I notice there isn't any citation for the claim that the Russian name Koloshi (Колоши) comes from a Sugpiaq-Alutiiq term kulut'ruaq for the labret worn by women. I can't find that term or evidence that it was ever applied to Tlingits. Anyone have a reference? Gholton (talk) 13:08, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the term Koloshi