Kwagu'ł

Noun

Kwagu'ł sg or pl

1. (plural, singular) 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.
   • 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...2019 December 9, Maham Abedi & Maryam Shah, “Stakes high for Indigenous women still waiting for action after MMIWG inquiry”, in Global News
   • 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...2020 July 7, Dana Gee, “First Nation elder Elsie Paul’s remarkable story gets new life online”, in Vancouver Sun