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Kwakwaka’wakw and Related Links
Da’naxda Awaetlata First Nation Band of Kwakwaka’wakw Home Page
http://www.danaxdaxw.com/
First Nations Land Rights and Environmentalism in British Columbia
http://www.firstnations.de/indian_land.htm
Kwakiutl Indian Band Homepage
http://www.kwakiutl.bc.ca/
Kwiakah First Nation Band of Kwakwaka’wakw Home Page
http://kwiakah.com/
‘Namgis First Nation Band of Kwakwaka’wakw
http://www.namgis.bc.ca/Pages/default.aspx
U’Mista Cultural Society Virtual Museum
http://www.umista.org/masks_story/en/ht/introductions.html
Brief biography of Samuel A. Barrett
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/anthro/5research1_barrett.html
Columbia University’s Retrospective on Franz Boas
http://www.c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/franz_boas.html
Edward Curtis’ Film “In the Land of the Head Hunters” Revisited
http://www.curtisfilm.rutgers.edu/
Link to Kwakiutl Tales by Franz Boas
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/kt/
George Hunt Biography
http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=7356
National Museum of the American Indian’s Kwakiutl Collections
http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/results.aspx?catids=1&areaid=16®id=54&culid=289&src=1-1
Royal BC Museum’s First Peoples Gallery
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/First_People_Gall/default.aspx
University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology
http://www.moa.ubc.ca/