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The Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw ([ˈkʷakʷəkʲəʔwakʷ]), also known as the Kwakiutl [2] [3] (/ ˈ k w ɑː k j ʊ t əl /; "Kwakʼwala-speaking peoples"), [4] [5] are an indigenous group of the Pacific Northwest Coast, in southwestern Canada. Their total population, according to a 2016 census, was 3,665 people.
A welcome figure in front of U’gwamalis Hall, headquarters of the Kwakiutl First Nation in Fort Rupert. 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 ...
Kwakʼwala or Kwak̓wala (/ k w ɑː ˈ k w ɑː l ə /), [2] previously known as Kwakiutl (/ ˈ k w ɑː k j ʊ t əl /), [3] is a Wakashan language spoken by about 450 Kwakwakaʼwakw people around Queen Charlotte Strait in Western Canada.
A welcome pole in front of U'gwamalis Hall, the Band Office for the Kwakiutl First Nation. The 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, and completion of artwork and traditional crafts can be observed.
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 ...
The common enemies of all the Coast Salish for most of the first half of the 19th century were the Lekwiltok aka Southern Kwakiutl, commonly known in historical writings as the Euclataws or Yucultas. Regular raids by northern tribes, particularly warriors of an alliance among the Haida , Tongass , and one group of Tsimshian , are also notable.
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.
Southern Kwakiutl Lekwala / Liq̓ʷala / Lekwiltok dialect (Bands of the Laich-kwil-tach (Lekwiltok), they were oft called Southern Kwakiutl but identify as a separate people from the Kwakwaka'wakw and their dialect is sometimes considered a separate language) Heiltsuk-Oowekyala (also known as Bella Bella) – about 200 speakers (2005)