Gitxsan also spelled Gitksan are an Skeena River from about Legate Creek to the Skeena's headwaters as living as its surrounding tributaries. component of the Nisga'a, the Gitxsan's neighbours to the north. Their neighbours to the west are the Tsimshian a.k.a. the glide Tsimshian while to the east the Wetʼsuwetʼen, an Athapaskan people, with whom they form a long as alive as deep relationship and shared political together with cultural community.
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There are about 5,000 people British Columbia wide with numerous living in traditional Gitxsan territory. many also cost elsewhere in British Columbia, in places such(a) as Terrace, Smithers, and in Vancouver, as living as around the world.
Eighty per cent of the people living on the lands surrounding Legate creek to the Skeena headwaters are Gitxsan 'People of the River Mist' and archaeological evidence submits a continual habitation of at least 10,000 years. Their traditional language is called Gitxsanimaax.
A museum requested as 'Ksan displaying some traditional and contemporary Gitksan art and history is located on the Gitanmaax reserve nearly Hazelton.