David Boxley
26:25 - 27:15
"it's really important to me that in thinking about this history, that the Laki'pul originated, migrated down the Stikine, and we used to live further north in Alaska in ancient, ancient times."
“it's really important to me that in thinking about this history, that the Laki'pul originated, migrated down the Stikine, and we used to live further north in Alaska in ancient, ancient times.”
- Speaker
- David Boxley
- Timestamp
- 26:25 – 27:15
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
- August 12, 2026
From the transcript
So I want everybody to understand, I guess, and for as much as this is about Lhakhibu and to Lhakhibu in the audience, I hope I done any well today, but as a Metlakatla, it's really important to me that in thinking about this history, that the Laki'pul originated, migrated down the Stikine, and we used to live further north in Alaska in ancient, ancient times. Eventually we come to the Skeena and incorporated into the Tsimshian after some conflict. We were the first ones down near Kitkatla when the Gisborne came down. There was they talk about all the wars between the Lakitu and the Gesi'agwada, but then a bunch of Lakitu stayed and became Gitxa'atla or Gitkaatla or all these different Tsimshian tribes. We often overfocus on war in our stories.
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