FDI - Kwakiutl

The Kwakiutl were a large sedentary maritime hunter dialectic group and culture that relied heavily on fishing. They occupied both shores of Queen Charlotte Sound and the northern end of Vancouver Island.

They suffered from the White influx. A great deal of their culture was lost as a result of the banning of the potlatch.

Aboriginal Locations (Villages)

BC Koskimo (3), Nawiti (2), Kwakiutl (14)

Present Locations

BC Campbell River Indian Band, Campbell River

Cape Mudge Indian Band, Quathiaski Cove

Kwakiutl Indian Band, Port Hardy

Kwa-wa-aineuk Indian Band, Sullivan Bay

Kwicksutaineuk-aw-kwa-ah-mish Indian Band, Gitfore Island

Mamaleleqala-Qwe'Qwa'Sot'Enox Indian Band, Campbell River

Tanakteuk Indian Band, Campbell River

Tsawataineuk Indian Band, Kingcome Inlet

Year	*History*
1640	Visited by Fuentes
1775	Visited by Bodega and Maurelle
1786	Visited by James Strange
1791	Totem poles first mentioned by Whites
1792	Area charted by Capt. George Vancouver
1827	Fort Langley post founded by Hudson Bay Company (HBC)
1833	Fort McLoughlin post founded by HBC
1843	HBC post established at Victoria
1849	HBC post at Fort Rupert
1850	Nahwiti destroyed by coastal authorities
1857	Village of Gwayasdums destroyed by Bella Coola
1862	Smallpox epidemic
1870	Alert Bay Salmon cannery established
1877	Anglican missionary Rev. A. J. Hall arrived at Fort Rupert
1884	Canadian Pacific Railroad completed; potlatch banned in British Columbia
1897	Franz Boas studies of exogamy and totemism began

Year	BC Population	Source
1700	8,000	NAHDB calculation
1800	8,000	NAHDB calculation
1835	8,000	Codere
1853	7,000	Hall
1881	3,500	Codere
1890	1,754	Hawthorne, Belshaw, Jamieson
1900	1,597	Hawthorne, Belshaw, Jamieson
1900	1,600	NAHDB calculation
1929	1,088	Hawthorne, Belshaw, Jamieson
1939	1,220	Hawthorne, Belshaw, Jamieson
1954	1,891	Hawthorne, Belshaw, Jamieson
1983	3,532	CDIA
2000	4,500	NAHDB calculation
2005	4,896	Indian Life Online

Kwakiutl Tribes Sites:

Baker, Wade Stephen, Kwakiutl Artist http://www.nativeonline.com/wadebaker.htm

Campbell River Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc84.php

Cape Mudge Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc85.php

Chief Lelooska http://www.lelooska.org/chief.htm

Cluxewe Resort http://www.cluxewe.com/html/kwakiutl_welcome.htm

Earthquake of Enormous Magnitude ... http://historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5098

Encountering Native Americans http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/native1.htm

Gifting and Feasting in the Northwest Potlatch http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/potlatch/

History of the Big House at Alert Bay http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/umistweb/art10a-e.html

Hunt, Tony http://collections.ic.gc.ca/artists/hunt_tony.html

Kwakiutl http://www.nativeamericans.com/Kwakiutl.htm

Kwakiutl http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/northamerica/kwakiutl.html

Kwakiutl http://www.bcfn.org/profile/kwakiutl.htm

Kwakiutl http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/NativeAmericans/Kwakiutl.html

Kwakiutl Art http://calvinhunt.com/

Kwakiutl Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t175

Kwakiutl Dancers with Totems http://encarta.msn.com/media_461562595_761573243_-1_1/Kwakiutl_Dancers_with_Totems.html

Kwakiutl Indian http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/61_12.htm

Kwakiutl Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc88.php

Kwakiutl Indian Mask http://www.masksoftheworld.com/NoAmerica/Native%20American%20Mask%20Kwakiutl.htm

Kwakiutl Indians http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/kimbrough/kwakiutl/

Kwakiutl Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/canada/kwakiutlindianhist.htm

Kwakiutl Language http://www.native-languages.org/kwakiutl.htm

Kwakiutl Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kwk

Kwakiutl Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=kwk

Kwakiutl Midwinter Ceremony http://www.brownielocks.com/kwakiutl.html

Kwakiutl Nation http://www.bctreaty.net/nations_3/kwakiutl.html

Kwakiutl Recipes http://www.hallman.org/indian/recipe.html

Kwakiutl Tales http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/kt/

Kwakiutl Territorial Fisheries Commission http://www.ktfc.net/

Kwakiutl Wisodm http://www.sacredhoop.org/HOOP-09/KWAKIUTL.html

Kwakiutl Women and Children http://gallery.unl.edu/picinfo/8167.html

Kwawa http://www.umista.org/kwawa/kwawa.asp

Kwakwa'ala Bibliography http://www.ydli.org/biblios/kwabib.htm

Kwa-wa-aineuk Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc89.php

Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/stones/groups/kwak.htm

Kwicksutaineuk-aw-kwa-ah-mish Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc87.php

Mamaleleqala-Qwe'Qwa'Sot'Enox Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc91.php

McDoougall, Jeff, Kwakiutl Jewler http://www.jeffmcdougall.com/

Museum at Campbell River http://www.crmuseum.ca/

Potlatch Then and Now http://collections.ic.gc.ca/potlatch/raven.htm

Tanakteuk Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc97.php

Tsawataineuk Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc98.php

Wakash Indians http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15525c.htm

*Ethnie:*	KWAKIUTL
*Language:*	Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)
*Family:*	Northern Wakashan
*Stock:*	Wakashan
*Phylum:*	Wakashan
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwestern