Kwawkewlth

English

Noun

Kwawkewlth sg or pl

  1. Alternative form of Kwakiutl.
    • 1935, William May Halliday, Potlatch and totem, and the recollections of an Indian agent‎[1], page xvi:
      The Kwawkewlth (‘beach on the other side of the river’) tribe occupy the northern corner of Vancouver Island from Johnstone Strait to Cape Cook, and nearly all the coast of the mainland from Douglas Channel to Bute Inlet.
    • 1994, Robert Galois, Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw settlements, 1775-1920 : a geographical analysis and gazetteer, Vancouver; Seattle: UBC Press; University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 244:
      James Smith stated that the Komenox were “a nation with ways of its own, which once lived between the Kwawkewlth and the Coast Salish but was neither one, yet was much like both in some ways” (Duff Papers, file 89).
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