b. 1818
d. 1858
Sudaał (pronounced: shou-dal) Ligeex was born around 1818, to a prominent Tsimshian family.1 Sudaał’s father was a Tsimshian Chief named Ligeex—the name, Ligeex (historically: Legaic), was a chiefly title of the Gispaxlo’ots Tsimshian and
of the Eagle Clan.
2
In
1832, Sudaał married a Métis trader and surgeon,
John Frederick Kennedy, helping Ligeex form
a powerful alliance with the HBC at Fort Simpson.
3 Throughout their marriage, Sudaał maintained
a certain level of ‘traditional’ power and authority...within the Tsimshian society
and simultaneously
wielded new sources of power and influence through her marriage to a [trader].
4
- 1. John Frederick Kennedy, Red River Ancestry, 2012.
- 2. Susan Neylan, The Native Christian and Catechist, in The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003), 88.
- 3. Susan Neylan, The Native Christian and Catechist & "'Until the Gospel Came and Lifted Her'", in The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003), 88 & 124.
- 4. Susan Neylan, "'Until the Gospel Came and Lifted Her"', in The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003), 124-125.
- 5. Marki Sellers, "Wearing the Mantle on Both Shoulders”": An Examination of the Development of Cultural
Change, Mutual Accommodation, and Hybrid Forms at Fort Simpson/Laxłgu‟alaams, 1834-1862, (Simon Fraser University, 2005), 10.
- 6. John Frederick Kennedy, Red River Ancestry, 2012.