Later, the name'Wiiseeks, a name belonging to the same royal Gispwudwada ( Killerwhale clan ) house-group ( extended matrilineal family ) as'Alamlaxha and Txagaaxs, became the leading name.
12.
This work has led to improved understanding of the animals'acoustic repertoire and complex social structure, which includes matrilineal family clans, pods consisting of several families, and much larger " super-pods ".
13.
However, one Giluts'aaw house-group ( extended matrilineal family ), the House of Niskiimas ( belonging to the Ganhada or Raven clan ), has members who are today associated with the Kitsumkalum community.
14.
However, he was one of only three members of his house-group ( matrilineal family ) in Lax Kw'alaams and so had " adopted his daughter's son as his nephew " to ensure his succession.
15.
Stories recording this encounter tell of the acquisition of the hereditary name He'l by the Gispwudwada ( Blackfish or Killerwhale clan ) House ( extended matrilineal family ) of Ts'ibasaa, from an English ship's captain named Hale.
16.
In the absence, though, of surviving members in Lax Kw'alaams of the House of Gwiskyaan, the royal line that traditionally had provided successors to the chieftainship of the Gitlaan tribe, a Nisga'a family from a related Laxgibuu ( Wolf clan ) house-group ( extended matrilineal family ) moved to Lax Kw'alaams to become the new royal house of the Gitlaan ( this occurring, then, some time between 1887 and 1913 ).
