The Tlingit (in English, also /-gɪt/ or /ˈtlɪŋkɪt/, which is often considered inaccurate) are an Indigenous people of northwestern America. Their name for themselves is Lingít , meaning "people". The Russian name Koloshi (from an Aleut term for the labret) or the related German name Koulischen may be encountered in older historical literature. The Tlingit are a matrilineal society who developed a complex hunter-gatherer culture in the temperate rainfore… (More on Tlingit)