Kwakwaka'wakw: The Kwakiutl People - Pacific Northwest - British Columbia, Canada, "Turtle Island"

This is a video for: "Kwakwaka'wakw", "The Kwakiutl People", a Pacific Northwest tribe, from British Columbia, Canada, on "Turtle Island". There are also videos in this channel for over 1300 North, South & Central American Tribes & First Nations, Residential Schools, Chiefs, Elders, Historical Events, Indigenous Concerns, Quotes, Environmental Youth Activists.. and much more.
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"The Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw People", (IPA: [ˈkʷakʷəkʲəʔwakʷ]), also known as the "Kwakiutl People", are one of the many Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. The Kwakiutl People live in their traditional territory, on northern Vancouver Island, nearby smaller islands, including the Discovery Islands and on the adjacent British Columbia mainland. Some also live outside their homelands in urban areas, such as Victoria and Vancouver. They are politically organized into 13 band governments. Throughout Native North America, gift giving is a central feature of social life. In the Pacific Northwest of the United States and British Columbia, in Canada, this tradition is known as the 'potlatch'. Within the tribal groups of these areas, individuals hosting a potlatch give away most, if not all of their wealth and material goods, to show goodwill to the rest of the tribal members and to maintain their social status. Tribes that traditionally practice the potlatch include the Haida, Kwakiutl, Makah, Nootka, Tlingit and Tsimshian Peoples. When Canadian law prohibited the potlatch, in 1884, tribes in British Columbia lost a central and unifying ceremony. Their despair was mirrored by the tribes of the Pacific Northwest, when the U.S. government outlawed the potlatch, in the early part of the twentieth century. With the passage of the 'Indian Reorganization Act', of 1934 in the United States and the Canadian 'Indian Act', of 1951, the potlatch was resumed, legally. It remains a central feature of Pacific Northwest Indian life, today.
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Many Thanks & Much Respect To: The Kwakwaka'wakw / Kwakiutl Peoples..; Kwakiutl.BC.ca..; En.Wikipedia.Org..; "Indian Music Of The Northwest Coast"..; "Indian Music Of The American Northwest"..; "Creation's Journey: Native American Music"..; TOM WILLIE (Kewakhalis)..; MUNGO MARTIN (Hanagalasu)..; KODI, HAROLD, GERALD, ALFRED & KELSEY NELSON..; GORDON DICK & THE TSLEIL-WAUTUTH SINGERS..; CHIEF JAMES SIWID..; BARBARA & ANDREA CRANMER, VERA DICK and HENRY SEAWEED..; BILLY ASSU..; THE KWAKWAKA'WAKW SINGERS..; WAH..; SQUAMISH NATION SINGERS..; KWAKIUTL NATION SINGERS..; ALERT BAY SINGERS.. and to all the other brothers and sisters who have contributed to this video with photos and/or, in any other way.
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