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Storybird - Spy Girl

Interactive Kwakwala Alphabet from School District 72

First Nations Alphabet

UBCWiki Page about Potlatches

UBCWiki: Potlatch

Potlatch
A potlatch is an important ceremonial event originating from the indigenous people of the NWCoast. Significant life events were marked and captured by potlatches including the naming of a newborn child, a marriage, a death, ascension of new chiefs, a graduation, opening of a new big house, and raising of totempoles. Due to the importance of these events, the celebration could last several days and were planned months and up to a year in advance

Ancient Petroglyph

Ancient Petroglyph... photo - John Morris photos at pbase.com


Petroglyph in Fort Rupert Taken by John Morris.

I have not seen this before
and don't know where it is located on the beach. Do any of the Kwakiutl Students know? If not try and find it.

Peter's Seashells

Peter’s Seashells

If you are looking for information on Seashells or on Seashells of BC this site is a good starting point.

Please note that this site will not allow you to copy images or content

The social organization and the secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians - by Franz Boaz - Online Scanned copy

Thought some might be able to use as a reference, or those in older grades. Early Canadiana Online - Page Image

www.firstnations.de article on the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples

The collector of the majority of Kwakwaka'wakw artifacts in the world's museums (including those illustrated above) was George Hunt (1854 - 1933) Hunt (K'ixitasu') was the son of an English fur trader at Fort Rupert and his Tlingit wife, Mary Ebbetts (Ansnaq), daughter of Chief Tongas from Alaska. Hunt spoke Kwakwala and he learned how to render it in phonetic writing. For most of his life, Hunt worked as an informant, translator and collector for outsiders who came to Tsaxis including Israel Powell, Jacob Adrian Jacobsen, Franz Boas and Edward Curtis.

What do you think about this article? Do you know if the article is based on fact, or if some things are based on assumption? Do you know if this article pertains to your family history and if it does how does it pertain to your family history? Don't just read what it is written, think to...

Great site with more Scratch Lessons

Learn Scratch

Scratch is a program developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in coordination with the Lifelong Kindergarden Group. It is a visual, block-based, computer programming language editor.

Scratch Tutorial on Velocity

Velocity makes the world go round... literally. Velocity can help things turn, twist, move, and do pretty much any other thing you can imagine! (not really). It basically just makes things move really smoothly.

Download Firefox 3 Day

Come on Canada, help Mozilla and Firefox enter the Guiness book of World Records and download Firefox 3, plus so far this app is looking awesome.