.I have some little interesting facts about my tribe.....

 

 

 

Where do the Tlingits live? The Tlingit Indians are original people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. They live in southern Alaska and in British Columbia and the Yukon in Canada.

 

 

 

 

How is the Tlingit Indian nation organized? In Canada, each Tlingit community has its own reserve, or reservation. Reserves are land that belongs to a Native American tribe and is legally under their control. Each Tlingit tribe--known as a band or First Nation in Canada--is politically independent and has its own leadership. The two Tlingit First Nations each have their own government, laws, police, and services, just like small countries. However, the Tlingits are also Canadian citizens and must obey Canadian law.

Tlingits in the United States do not have reservations. Like most Alaska Natives, they live in Native villages instead. Alaska Native villages do not have the same sovereignty rights that Indian nations in other US states do, but the Tlingits belong to a coalition called the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska which handles tribal government on behalf of several Native villages. Individual Tlingit villages also have local councils that have economic control over their village resources.