Skittagetan Lagoon

Skittagetan Lagoon (52˚33'00" 131˚39'00" NW of Hoskins Point, at N approach to De la Beche Inlet, E side of Moresby I, QCI). Named by the hydrographic service in 1962 for a First Nation language classification that encompassed the dialects of Haida. The word was adapted from Skittagets, a variation of Skidegate (qv), the hereditary name of an important Haida head chief. In the 1830s, linguist Albert Gallatin, who served 13 years as US treasury secretary, applied this name to the linguistic...

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