• Thumbnail for Kwaguʼł
    Kwaguʼł are a Kwakwakaʼwakw tribe of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast from central British Columbia, on northern Vancouver Island...
    2 KB (244 words) - 16:03, 17 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kwakwakaʼwakw
    ʼNak̓wala, G̱uc̓ala and T̓łat̓łasik̓wala. The name Kwakiutl derives from Kwaguʼł—the name of a single community of Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw located at Fort Rupert...
    36 KB (4,121 words) - 14:09, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for In the Land of the Head Hunters
    In the Land of the Head Hunters Kwagu'ł girl, Margaret Frank (née Wilson) was featured in Curtis's In the Land of the Head Hunters. Here she is shown...
    13 KB (1,509 words) - 01:47, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lake View, Chicago
    Thunderbird of the Kwagu'ł Native American tribe. A plaque below the totem pole reads: Kwanusila the Thunderbird, is an authentic Kwagu'ł totem pole, carved...
    64 KB (6,051 words) - 16:43, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chilkat weaving
    Kwagu'ł woman wearing the same fringed Chilkat blanket by Mary Ebbetts Hunt shown above (worn backwards), a hamatsa neckring and mask...
    8 KB (710 words) - 20:27, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Potlatch
    supernatural creatures such as the dzunukwa. Chief O'wax̱a̱laga̱lis of the Kwagu'ł describes the potlatch in his famous speech to anthropologist Franz Boas...
    26 KB (3,401 words) - 21:29, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Broughton Strait
    Retrieved 31 January 2024. Robertson 2012, p. 514 Robertson, Leslie A. & the Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan (2012). Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook...
    4 KB (261 words) - 23:44, 1 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kwanusila
    Kwanusila the Thunderbird on top. Its sculptor was Tony Hunt, the chief of the Kwagu'ł tribe in British Columbia, as a 1986 replacement for the totem pole that...
    4 KB (272 words) - 12:43, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort Rupert
    present-day village of Fort Rupert is a historic Kwakwaka'wakw village of the Kwagu'ł (Kwagyewlth or Kwakiutl) and the Komoyue subgroup, where totem pole carving...
    13 KB (1,034 words) - 19:50, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kwakiutl First Nation
    the Fort Rupert Band, known in traditional Kwakwaka'wakw terms as the Kwagu'ł or Kwagyewlth. It is a member of the Kwakiutl District Council. It is currently...
    2 KB (234 words) - 17:07, 7 May 2022
  • years, wrote about "Quaghcuils" (Kwakwaka'wakw, possibly specifically the Kwagu'ł of Fort Rupert), "Kitamats" (Kitimaat, a Haisla subgroup), and "Chimnseyans"...
    9 KB (1,149 words) - 14:49, 4 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Laich-kwil-tach
    speakers of Kwak'wala who remained in the Queen Charlotte Strait. The Kwagu'ł or Northern Kwakiutl of Fort Rupert are more closely allied and related...
    4 KB (509 words) - 10:13, 26 November 2024
  • and the Komagata Maru - An Illustrated History Leslie A. Robertson and Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan, Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the...
    17 KB (254 words) - 06:10, 28 November 2024
  • Blakely in Puget Sound, Washington. She was the daughter of Gwayulalas, a Kwagu'l noblewoman from Tsaxis (Fort Rupert, British Columbia) and a European fur...
    7 KB (783 words) - 09:01, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Canadian Indigenous law
    Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw nation and its numerous community subdivisions, such as the Kwaguʼł, ʼNa̱mg̱is, and Dzawa̱da̱ʼenux̱w (amongst many others), maintain a complex...
    53 KB (5,508 words) - 04:50, 2 November 2024