Lax-Kw’alaams sometimes referred to as Port Simpson, is associate autochthonic village community in British Columbia, Canada, shortly from town of Prince Rupert. It’s the house of the “Nine Tribes” of the lower Skeena stream, that ar 9 of the fourteen tribes of the Tsimshian nation. The 9 Tribes are: Giluts’aaw, Ginadoiks, Ginaxangiik, Gispaxlo’ots, Gitando, Gitlaan, Gits’iis, Gitwilgyoots, and Gitzaxaa.
Lax-Kw’alaams derives from Laxgu’alaams, which implies “place of the wild roses.” it’s associate ancient bivouacking spot of the Gispaxlo’ots tribe and in 1834 became the positioning of a Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) mercantile establishment referred to as Fort Simpson, then Port Simpson. The name Fort Simpson derived from Capt. Aemilius Simpson, superintendent of the HBC’s Marine Department, UN agency had established the primary, short lived, Fort Simpson, on the close Nass stream, in 1830 with Peter Skene Ogden.
One of the first reasons for the institution of Fort Simpson was to undermine yank dominance of the Maritime Fur Trade. The primary HBC issue at the new Fort Simpson was Dr. John Frederick Kennedy, UN agency married the girl of the Gispaxlo’ots chief Ligeex as a part of the diplomacy that established the fort on Gispaxlo’ots territory. Kennedy served at Fort Simpson till 1856.
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