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Kwakiutl , group of closely related Native North Americans who inhabit N Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland of British Columbia, Canada. They, together with the Nootka, their southern neighbors, make up the Wakashan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). Kwakiutl culture was typical of the Northwest Coast area (including the custom of potlatch ). The ethnographer Franz Boas produced a significant number of ethnographic studies on the Kwakiutl. Numbering c.15,000 before European contact, they are now reduced to around 4,000 and are mainly engaged in fishing and farming.

Bibliography: See F. Boas, Kwakiutl Ethnography, ed. by H. F. Codere (1966); R. P. Rohner and E. C. Rohner, The Kwakiutl (1970).

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Kwakiutl Tribe of Native Americans on the nw coast speaking the Wakashan language, and closely related to the Bella Bella. They number c.2,000 and occupy n Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.

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