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Gitxsan Nation

3000 BC – present
Native nationNorth America

'People of the river of mist' whose totem-pole villages line the upper Skeena around Hazelton.

Their Wet'suwet'en-allied Delgamuukw case (1997) won a landmark Supreme Court ruling that oral histories can prove Aboriginal title; the Gitxsan hereditary chiefs persist along the Skeena.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 3 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Gitxsan Nation — the shape you scrub through changes in 3000 BC · 1860 · 1984.

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