tlingit

noun, plural Tlin·gits, (especially collectively) Tlin·git.

1. a member of any of a number of American Indian peoples of the coastal regions of southern Alaska and northern British Colmbia.
2. the language of the Tlingit, a Na-Dene language.

noun

1. plural -gits or -git a member of a seafaring group of North American Indian peoples inhabiting S Alaska and N British Columbia
2. the language of these peoples, belonging to the Na-Dene phylum

Indian group in Alaska and Canada, the people’s word for themselves, literally “human beings.”