The Tsimshians (or People of the River Skeena), they are a tribe of Indians of America, once appropriated along the coast nordoccidentale of the Pacific ocean, allied culturally with the Haidas and the Kwakiutls. As these last, the Tsimshians are skilled carvers, artistically gifted, and weavers of covers Chikat. Their principal source of food was constituted by the salmon, from the halibut, from the codfish and from the molluscs, and desultorily also from the whales. Their aboriginal country was long the course of the river Skeena, in British Colombia but a shepherd of the Church of England it persuaded them in 1884 to move to Alaska. Today around a thousand of Tsimshian they live in the reserve of it Annexes Island of 86.500 acrid in the southeastern Alaska and they develop in this is an asset political and economic role.
