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Nass|næs|
The name of a river in British Columbia, Canada, used attrib. to denote a branch of the Tsimshian people who inhabit the basin of this river, and whose native name is Niska. Also as n., their language.
1829J. S. Green in Missionary Herald (Boston, Mass.) (1830) XXVI. 344 The Nass Indians live on the continent. Ibid., The Nass to my ear is harsh and disagreeable. 1911F. Boas Handbk. Amer. Indian Lang. I. 290 The system of vowels of Tsimshian is nearly the same as that of the Nass dialect. Ibid. 292 Many u-sounds of Tsimishian are ī or ē in Nass. [1934D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 2) ii. 18 The Tsimshian of the Nass and Skeena rivers. Ibid. xxi. 336 The Tsimshian (‘people inside of the Skeena river’), were divided into three groups, the Tsimshian proper around the mouth of Skeena river, the Gitksan (‘Skeena River people’) farther up the same stream, and the Niska who inhabited the basin of Nass (Niska) river.] |