Gispwudwada

The Gispwudwada (variously spelled) is the name for the Killerwhale "clan" (phratry) in the language of the Tsimshian nation of British Columbia, Canada, and southeast Alaska. It is considered analogous or identical to the Gisgahaast (variously spelled; also Gisk'aast) clan in British Columbia's Gitksan nation and the Gisk'ahaast/Gisk'aast Tribe of the Nisga'a. The Nisga'a also call this group the Killerwhale Tribe, though the Gitksan use the term Fireweed clan; Gisgahaast means literally "people of the fireweed."