Anne Marie Goodfellow explores the relationship between language, culture, and identity through a case study of the current use of Kwak'wala in two communities, Quatsino and Kingcome Inlet.

The Kwak'wala language of the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations is in rapid decline as a living language.

This book is an invaluable resource tool for anyone investigating documentary sources dealing with Native peoples in British Columbia and elsewhere.

... Kwakwaka'wakw behavior as attachment to superstition and tradi- tion , in opposition to modernity and change . The Kwakwaka'wakw seemed to belong , as the New York Times asserted , to “ an almost extinct race . ” 2 But even as the Kwakwaka' ...

There is a low percentage of First Nations students participating in senior high school sciences and pursuing the field of science.

But as this collection shows, the epic film is not simply an artifact of colonialist nostalgia.

... Kwakwaka'wakw , uncooked rhizomes , stems and attached leaf - bases were a favourite feast food . They gathered the plants in canoes , by turning long hemlock poles until the Eelgrass leaves were wrapped around them , then pulled up the ...

The Kwakwakawakw people and their culture have been the subject of more anthropological writings than any other ethnic group on the Northwest Coast. Until now, however, no biography had been written by or about a Kwakwakawakw woman.