Ediziza Trail

The Ediziza Trail crosses the same broader northern interior associated with the Tsetsaut, near the head of the Portland Canal on the Alaska–British Columbia boundary. The Tsetsaut were an Athabaskan-speaking people, and the Nisga'a and Gitxsan name for them, “those of the Interior,” was linked to traditions of migration from farther inland. No constructed or named trail is recorded at this cell; the route's historical meaning is regional rather than that of a documented road.

In 1830 the Tsetsaut were estimated at up to 500 and were living at Behm Canal, friendly with the Sanya kwaan of the Tlingit and Lakweip, before moving to the Portland Canal. This is the clearest dated episode in the record for their country. Later attacks and disease left few survivors, who came under the protection of a Nisga'a Eagle clan chief. The trail cell shares that wider history, without traces for a separate local settlement or battle.