Meaning of Kwagu'ł | Babel Free

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A First Nation based on the east coast of Vancouver Island, around Port Hardy, Fort Rupert and Port McNeill, and on Malcom Island in British Columbia, Canada, part of the Kwakwaka'wakw.

plural, singular

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“Indeed, it’s troubling how Indigenous women are often portrayed “through this kind of criminal or victim paradigm,” says Sarah Hunt, an assistant professor at the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the department of geography at the University of British Columbia, who is Kwakwaka’wakw from the Kwagu’ł people of Tsax̱is.”

“This project will bring together in one place film footage, wax-cylinder recordings, interviews and a manuscript on various dances written by famed American anthropologist Franz Boas, who on his final trip to the north coast in 1930 worked with his Tlingit/English colleague George Hunt and some of Hunt’s extended family to record crafts, games and dancing in the Kwagu’ł village of Tsaxis (Fort Rupert), B.C.”

“Child, a Kwagu'ł band member and professor in Indigenous education at North Island College in Courtenay, on the east coast of Vancouver Island, says most of the speakers in her community are in their 70s and 80s.”

“The Kwagu’ł ancestral lands are “being completely cleared, faster than anything else globally,” said Hereditary Chief Makwala, Rande Cook (Ma’amtagila). Only 19-20% of the original old-growth forest remains on Vancouver Island (including parks), according to data from Sierra Club BC.”

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