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Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka’wakw) - Encyclopedia. com Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka’wakw)NameThe name Kwakiutl (pronounced kwak-ee-YEW-tul ) has two meanings: either “smoke of the world” or “beach at the north side of the river ” In the past the name referred to all the related tribes or groups, those who spoke the Kwakiutl language (known in modern times as Kwakwaka’wakw ) and the individual band
Kwakiutl - Encyclopedia. com "Kwakiutl" was initially and properly applied only to one local group, the Walas Kwakiutl of Queen Charlotte Strait, British Columbia, but was subsequently used by fur traders and others to designate the four groups (including the Walas Kwakiutl) that assembled at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Rupert in the 1850s By extension, missionaries
Franz Boas | Encyclopedia. com Proof of this assertion was Boas himself, who remained racially white while learning how to speak the Kwakiutl language and participate in Kwakiutl culture To right the scientific wrong of racial determinism, Boas wrote The Mind of Primitive Man (1911), a watershed book that helped pave the way for the modern understanding of race as a
I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Encyclopedia. com I Heard the Owl Call My Nameby Margaret CravenTHE LITERARY WORK A novel set in the mid-1960s in the Kwakiutl Indian village of Kingcome, British Columbia; published in 1967 SYNOPSIS A young Anglican vicar finds peace in life and death among the Kwakiutl tribe Events in History at the Time of the NovelThe Novel in FocusFor More Information Source for information on I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Potlatch - Encyclopedia. com Late nineteenth-century Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) potlatches described by Franz Boas displayed oratorical boasting and overwhelming quantities of gifts and food, asserting the aristocratic host's wealth and high rank Neighboring noble houses vied for even more generous potlatches, escalating the competition for status
Secret Societies - Encyclopedia. com Some of the most shocking practices of secret societies — for example, the eating of raw human flesh in a secret society of the Kwakiutl Indians of North America — can be seen as a way of demonstrating the transhuman (and certainly nonhuman) nature of the life of a secret society member (members of this kind of secret society think of
Haida - Encyclopedia. com The Haida traded frequently with the Tsimshian, Tlingit (pronounced KLINK-it), and Kwakiutl (pronounced kwak-ee-YEW-tul) tribes, but they sometimes warred with them and with the Bella Bella For thousands of years the Haida have lived on islands along the coast of the Canadian province of British Columbia and in the nearby American state of Alaska
Indians, North American - Encyclopedia. com The Kwakiutl divided the year into a summer season, in which subsistence and secular activities were dominant, and a winter, or sacred, season, in which the spirit world was important During the winter season the numaym organization gave way to a parallel organization of graded or ranked secret societies, which performed ceremonies and dances
Southwestern Indians - Encyclopedia. com SOUTHWESTERN INDIANS The pre-colonial Indians of the American Southwest included the Mogollon, Hohokam, Anasazi (or "Cliff Dwellers"), and the Anasazi's Pueblo descendents
Kwame Kilpatrick | Encyclopedia. com Kwame Kilpatrick [1]1970— Former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick [2] was the youngest mayor to lead the city of Detroit, Michigan, and the city's first mayor to resign the office after being charged with a felony