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Kwakiutl A group of closely related Native North Americans who inhabit N Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland of British Columbia, Canada. They together with the Nootka, their southern neighbors, make up the Wakashan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock. Kwakiutl culture was typical of the Northwest Coast area (including the custom of potlatch). The ethnographer, Franz Boas, produced a significant number of ethnographic studies on the Kwakiutl. See Franz Boas, Kwakiutl Ethnography, ed. by H. F. Codere (1966); R. P. Rohner and E. C. Rohner, The Kwakiutl (1970).
Kwakiutl Tribe
Here's a brief article listing the location and present status of this
Nation, with a link to a listing of each band's Chief and Councillors.
http://www.aaf.gov.bc.ca/aaf/nations/kwakiutl/626.htm
The Kwakiutl of British Columbia
"... a dialectic group belonging to the Wakashan linguistic family... on the
northern part of Vancouver Island, the neighboring smaller islands and the
adjacent coast of mainland British Columbia, Canada... " Topics include this
people's social structure, ritual cannibalism, and mythology.
http://gbms01.uwgb.edu/~galta/mrr/kwakiutl/summary1.htm |
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