The Teslin Tlingit Council (TTC) is a First Nation government in the central Yukon in Canada, located in Teslin, Yukon along the Alaska Highway and Teslin Lake. The language originally spoken by the Teslin is Tlingit. Together with the Taku River Tlingit First Nation in British Columbia, they comprise the Inland Tlingit.
The Teslin Tlingit Council was one of the first four Yukon First Nations to sign a land claims agreement in 1992.
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“There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
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