Each clan has its own history, songs, and totems, and each forms a social network of extended families which functions as a political unit in Tlingit society. The moieties of the Tlingit society are the Raven (Yéil) and Eagle, Wolf, killer whale, Frog, Thunderbird and hummingbird and butterfly.

TLINGIT TRIBES, CLANS AND CLAN HOUSES “…a name once given (to a clan house) survive(s) the mere structure.” George Emmons, 1916 CIRCA LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY HINYAA KWÁAN: KLAWOCK TRIBE FROM ACROSS THE WATER RAVEN MOIETY K’óoxeeneidí K’óox Hít (MARTEN HOUSE) Taakw.aaneidí Yáay Hít (WHALE H.) Teeyneidí Yéil Hít (RAVEN HOUSE)

In Tlingit, Yeil is Raven and Ch'aak is Eagle (Wolf is sometimes used interchangeably with Eagle). Each clan is made up of clan houses. The Haida people and Tlingit people have always lived on these sacred and wondrous lands and waters of Southeast Alaska …

Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and Eyak social systems are highly complex. Each of these groups is organized into two equal halves, the Eagle and Raven moieties, which consist of several clans each. The clans are matrilineal, meaning that children inherit through their mother.

The Ganhada is the name for the Raven Clan (phratry) in the language of the Tsimshian nation of British Columbia, Canada, and southeast Alaska. It is considered analogous or identical to the G̱anada Tribe (Raven/Frog) of the Nisga’a nation in British Columbia and the Frog clan among B.C.’s Gitxsan nation.

Jul 20, 2014 · According to the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, tribal members people are born into either the raven or eagle clan line, established matrilineally through their mother’s family.

Aug 23, 2006 · In Southeast Alaska, Raven is used as a phratry by one of the two opposite groups. The other is the Eagle. That is why Raven is so prominent in Haida and Tlingit totems. A person is either a Raven or Eagle. The clan crests come under these two phratries.

Resting place of several members of the Taku Indians' Raven Clan on Juneau, Alaska's Douglas Island. The main village of the Taku people was located up the Taku River in what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia .

Jan 1, 2000 · In the Tlingit clan system, one moiety was known as Raven or Crow, the other moiety as Eagle or Wolf depending upon the time period. Each moiety contained many clans. The Haida have two moieties, Eagle and Raven, and also have many clans under each moiety.

The clan leader and elders are responsible for bringing out clan objects and recounting the associated oral traditions. They are also expected to respond to the display of clan objects, speeches and songs offered by an opposing clan (a clan …