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The Kwakiutl First Nation is a First Nations government based on northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, focused on the community of Port Hardy, British Columbia in the Queen Charlotte Strait region, and also known as the Fort Rupert Band, known in traditional Kwakwaka'wakw terms as the Kwagu'ł or Kwagyewlth. [1]
The band government of the Kwaguʼł is the Kwakiutl First Nation. The anglicization " Kwakiutl " and other forms of this group's name was for a long time used to describe all the Kwakwakaʼwakw peoples, but properly refers only to this group.
The Kwakiutl District Council, also spelled Kwakwewlth District Council and Kwakiuth District Council, [1] pronounced Kwagiulth District Council, [citation needed] is a First Nations Tribal Council based on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, based in the community of Campbell River, British Columbia in the northern Strait of Georgia but including member nations spanning northern ...
Comox First Nation K'ómoks: Coast Salish: Comox language: Kwakiutl District Council: Campbell River: Kwadacha Band: Kwadacha First Nation Kwakiutl First Nation: Kwagyulh, Kwagyuilh, Port Hardy Band Kwaguʼł: Kwakwaka'wakw: Kwak'wala: Unaffiliated Port Hardy: Kwantlen First Nation: Fraser River Salish: Halqemeylem: Fort Langley: Kwaw-kwaw-a ...
There are approximately 225 members of the Daʼnaxdaʼxw Nation. [10] The Nation is a member of the Kwakiutl District Council and, for treaty negotiation purposes, the Winalagalis Treaty Group which includes three other members of the Kwakiutl District Council (the Quatsino First Nation, the Gwaʼsala-ʼNakwaxdaʼxw Nations, and the ...
The largest First Nations group near the St. Lawrence waterway are the Iroquois. This area also includes the Wyandot (formerly referred to as the Huron) peoples of central Ontario, and the League of Five Nations who had lived in the United States, south of Lake Ontario. Major ethnicities include the: Anishinaabe. Algonquin; Nipissing
The Nations commonly each had a head chief, who acted as the leader of the nation, with numerous hereditary clan or family chiefs below him. In some of the nations, there also existed Eagle Chiefs, but this was a separate society within the main society and applied to the potlatching only. The Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw are one of the few bilineal ...
The Gwawaenuk Tribe, or Gwawaʼenux̱w is a First Nations band government of the Kwakwaka'wakw people located in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. [1] The Gwawaenuk Tribe has no year-round road access to a service centre and being about 160 km to 240 km from the nearest service centre. [1]