| Feature Type: | Arm - Long narrow extension of a water body. |
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Not official
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| Pronounced: | CHim Gits awl |
| Relative Location: | E arm of Observatory Inlet, S of Stewart, Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 55°27'02"N, 129°35'18"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103P/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Nisga'a name for Alice Arm (Nisga'a Treaty, Appendix F-2, effective 11 May 2000).
Source: Nisga'a Tribal Council / Ayuukhl Nisga'a Department, Aiyansh BC |
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Although there are Nisga'a titleholders throughout Observatory Inlet and Alice Arm (as in other parts of the Nisga'a traditional territory), this entire resource-rich harvesting area is utilized in common with all Nisga'a. Particularly when salmon stocks have depleted in the Nass River proper, the Nisga'a go to K'alii Ts'im Gits'oohl. [k'alii/ upriver; ts'im/ inside, within; gits'oohl/ a ways in behind]. Lax Gits'oohl, at the head of Ts'im Gits'oohl (Alice Arm) is where Sa'anik' - of the Laxwiiyip (Nasskoten of the Athabaskan Tribe) - made his first attempt to take the Nisga'a Sim'oogit (chief), Hlidax. The Laxwiiyip were eventually driven out of Nisga'a territory, and never did succeed in their attempts to gain control to Nisga'a lands. Source: Nisga'a Tribal Council / Ayuukhl Nisga'a Department, Aiyansh BC |