The Laxgibuu is the name for the Wolf "clan" (phratry) in the language

Coast Tsimshian

Coast Tsimshian, known by its speakers as Sm'algyax, is a Tsimshianic language spoken by the Tsimshian nation in northwestern British Columbia and southeastern Alaska...

 of the Tsimshian

Tsimshian

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 nation of British Columbia

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, Canada, and southeast Alaska

Alaska

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. It is considered analogous or identical to identically named clans among the neighboring Gitksan and Nisga'a

Nisga'a

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 nations.

The name Laxgibuu derives from gibuu, which means wolf in the Gitksan and Nisga'a languages. In Tsimshian the word is gibaaw, but Tsimshians still use the word Laxgibuu for Wolf clan.

The chief crest of the Laxgibuu is the Wolf. Other crests used by some matrilineal house-groups of the Laxgibuu include black bear.

Some Laxgibuu house-groups are related to Wolf clan groups among the Tahltan

Tahltan

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 and Tlingit First Nations to the north. In the case of the Tlingit, the connection is through Tlingit Wolves who migrated south from what is now Alaska to escape interclan warfare and settled among the Tsimshian, Gitksan, and Nisga'a. Descendants of some of these migrants share with their distant Tlingit relatives variants on the "Bear Mother" story which has been well recorded by anthropologists and folklorists. The Kitsumkalum Laxgibuu are one example of a Tsimshian Wolf group who own the right to tell this story.

Nisga'a - Laxgibuu

Some Nisga'a Laxgibuu Wilp (House groups) include:

• Gitwilnaak'il Clan (People Separate but Of One):
  • • House of Duuk - Bill Moore
    • House of K'eexkw - Herbert Morven
    • House of Gwingyoo - Ben Gonu Sr. & Leonard Robinson

• Giskansnaat Clan (People of Hawthorn Bushes):
  • • House of Sgat'iin - Isaac Guno
    • House of Ni'isyok - Martin Adams
    • House of Gwiskaayn - Nelson Clayton

• Gitlaxt'iyook Clan:
  • • House of Baxk'ap - Jacob Nyce
    • House of Axdii 'Min'aajax - Max Haines
    • House of 'Wii Gadim Xgaak - Clyde Azak

• Gitgigeenix Clan (People from the North):
  • • House of 'Nagwa'un - Rod Maxwell
    • House of Ni'ismuut - James McNeil
    • House of Ni'islis'yaan - Eddie Nelson
    • House of Kw'axsuu - Stuart Doolan
• Gitwilluuyaxw Clan:
  • • House of Ksdiyaawak - George Williams Sr.

• House of Wii Naa-Buxw - Terry Morven
• House of Axgwindaskw - Clifford Azak Sr.
• House of Aama Gat - Gary Stevens

• House of 'Wii Gwisyaxw - Arnie Stewart
• House of Xsduutgum Laxha - Joe Calder
• Sim'oogit Gakw'hleen - Hubert Doolan