Kwakiutl

“Kwakiutl is very old name, Boas was told it meant “smoke of the world’ but he believed that it meant “beach at the north side of the river’. The four tribes, which collectively made up the Kwakiutl were the Kwakiutl, the K’umk’utis, the Kwixa and the Walas Kwakiutl.

“Today the Kwakiutl First Nation still have the eight reserves on 295 hectares of land and is a thriving community actively pursuing Land Claims and maintaining Kwakwaka’wakw culture through potlatches and feasts … The Kwakiutl are a nation that is alive and prospering, far from the dying race they were thought to be at the beginning of the last century.”

For more information, please visit the Kwakiutl Tribe website.