Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Monday, December 8, 2008
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
Friday, December 5, 2008
Ancient Petroglyph
Ancient Petroglyph... photo - John Morris photos at pbase.com
Petroglyph in Fort Rupert Taken by John Morris.
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.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Learn Scratch - More Great Scratch Tutorials
learnscratch.org - DR-04: Lego Kit
DR-04: Lego Kit
This project simulates a lego construction kit, allowing the creation of sophisticated designs with a relatively simple program.
Expo Scratch Tutorials
Scratch Tutorials
Students at Expo were beta testers for a new programming software called Scratch. Designed specifically for youth, it allows them to create their own stories, animations, fames, music and art.
Scratch tutorials from www.expo.spps.org
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
http://www.anashinteractive.com/
~ Anash Interactive ~
This is an awesome Site, I love the entrance page. The site relies heavily on flash, but it is an awesome place to interact with Tlingit Culture. Also, you get to drag and drop to creat comic books and resize, how awesome is that?
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Supera Mario - Turtle thingy trick
Not that this has anything to do with Homework Club, but I was playing this a month ago, and couldn't do the jumping on the turtle thing anymore and it was driving me up the wall. I could do that with no problem when I was a kid though. Anyways here is a video of somebody doing the turtle trick over and over again.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
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