Kwakiutl - Citizendia

The term Kwakiutl was usually applied to a group of indigenous peoples of northern Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Strait and the Johnstone Strait, who are now known as Kwakwaka'wakw, which means Kwak'wala-speaking-peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are the Pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, their descendants and many Ethnic groups Vancouver Island is a large Island in British Columbia, Canada, one of several North American regions named after George Vancouver, the British Queen Charlotte Strait is a Strait between Vancouver Island and the Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Johnstone Strait is a 110 km (68 mi channel along the north east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The Kwakwaka'wakw (also Kwakiutl) are an Indigenous nation numbering about 5500 who live in British Columbia on northern Vancouver Island Kwak'wala (also Kwagiutl or Kwakiutl) is the Indigenous language spoken by the Kwakwaka'wakw. The term, created by anthropologist Franz Boas, was used up until the 1980's. Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of Franz Boas ( July 9, 1858 &ndash December 21, 1942) was a German - American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern It comes from one of the Kwakwaka'wakw tribes, the Kwagu'ł, at Fort Rupert, whom Franz Boas did most of his anthropological work and whose Indian Act band government is the Kwakiutl First Nation. Kwagu'ł are an Kwakwaka'wakw tribe of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast from central British Columbia, on northern Vancouver Fort Rupert is the site of a former Hudson's Bay Company fort which was built and first commanded by William Henry McNeill in 1849 The Indian Act ("An Act respecting Indians" RS 1985 c The Kwakiutl First Nation is a First Nations government based on northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, focussed on the community The term was also misapplied to mean all the tribes who spoke Kwak'wala, as well as three other indigenous peoples who language is apart of the Wakashan linguistically group, but whose language is not Kwak'wala. Wakashan is a family of languages spoken in British Columbia around and on Vancouver Island, and in the northwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula of These peoples, incorrectly known as the Northern Kwakiutl, were the Haisla, Wuikinuxv, and Heiltsuk. The Haisla (also Xa’islak’ala, X̄a’islak̕ala, X̌àʔislak̕ala, X̄a’islak’ala, X̣aʔislak’ala, Xa'islak'ala The Wuikinuxv people also known as the Wuikenukv, Oweekeno, Wikeno, Owikeno, Oowekeeno, Oweekano, Awikenox, The Heiltsuk (ˈheiltsʊk (also Bella Bella) are a Indigenous First Nations of the Central Coast region of the Canadian province

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