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Nass Country
Nass or NASS may refer to: Places *Nass River, in northern British Columbia * Nass Camp settlement in British Columbia *Ngee Ann Secondary School, a secondary school in Tampines, Singapore Peoples and cultures * Nass, the Nisga'a language * People of the Nass, the Nisga'a people of northern British Columbia Organizations * nass.gov.ng, the website of the National Assembly (Nigeria) * National Agricultural Statistics Service (or NASS), part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture * National Association of Secretaries of State (or NASS), an association of United States Secretaries of State * National Association of Stable Staff (or NASS), in the UK * National Asylum Support Service (or NASS), in the UK * North American Spine Society (or NASS), which publishes ''The Spine Journal'' * North American Sundial Society (or NASS) Other uses *Nass (Islam), an Arabic word meaning "a known, or clear, legal injunction" * Nass Corporation, a Bahraini industrial and construction services c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nass River
The Nass River is a river in northern British Columbia, Canada. It flows from the Coast Mountains southwest to Nass Bay, a sidewater of Portland Inlet, which connects to the North Pacific Ocean via the Dixon Entrance. Nass Bay joins Portland Inlet just south of Observatory Inlet. The English name "Nass" is derived from the Tlingit name ''Naas'' which means "intestines" or "guts" in reference to the river's large food capacity in its fish (Naish & Story 1963; Leer, Hitch, & Ritter 2001). Can also be a Tlingit word for "food depot". Former spellings are Naas and Nasse. The Nisga'a name for the river is ''K'alii Aksim Lisims'' "Lisims (river name) Valley". The Gitxsan name is ''Git-Txaemsim'' meaning People of Txeemsim (Raven or Trickster); ''Xsitxemsem'' in the dialect of the Gitanyow). ''Lisims'' means "murky" in Nisga'a, referring to the river's silt-laden flow. The last of the river are navigable. The river is a commercially valuable salmon fishery. The basin of the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |