Tlingit

Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry.  Often very little information is known or they no longer exist.  We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Chak (eagle). A name given by the northern Tlingit to one of the two phratries into which they are divided. Chukanedi (bush or grass people) . A clan among the Huna division of the Tlingit, belonging to the Wolf phratry. Anciently they are said to have stood low in the social scale. Their principal emblem was the porpoise. Daktlawedi. A Tlingit clan belonging to the Wolf phratry. It … Read more