Skittagetan

plural Skittagetans

1. Synonym of Haida (“people”).

   The Haydas (Skittagetans) were and are the flower of the native races.

   1897, A. C. Harris, Alaska and the Klondike gold fields, page 488

   Synonyms: Haida

1. Synonym of Haida (“language”).

   In the Haida language, of the Skittagetan family, translations of three of the Gospels and of the Acts, by Charles Harrison and J. H. Keen, were printed in 1891-97.

   1912, Frederick Webb Hodge, editor, Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico, page 145

   Synonyms: Haida