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David Boxley
6:54 - 7:26
“it shows that they got to the Nass first, learned Somali, and then people decided to keep moving south, eventually going to a place called Makle-Kaafle, which is where all of the Kaafle is now in British Columbia.”
- Speaker
- David Boxley
- Timestamp
- 6:54 – 7:26
- Transcript
- Sealaska Heritage Institute: Laxgyibuu Clan Crest with David R. Boxley | Sealaska Heritage
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
- August 12, 2026
From the transcript
On the Naas, their dialect of Somali, they say kibu. Lakhgibu. We still say gibu even though we— that's not our word or our pronunciation of wolf. But it shows that they got to the Nass first, learned Somali, and then people decided to keep moving south, eventually going to a place called Makle-Kaafle, which is where all of the Kaafle is now in British Columbia. It's where 9 Tsimshian tribes would return.
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