The Kwakiutls are a tribe of Indians of America that they belong to the group linguistic Wakashan. According to some linguists, the term Kwakiutl means "beach on the side north of the river", but some elderly of the tribe translates him/it as "smoke of the rivers". I/you/they are appropriated on the island of Vancouver in western Canada and along the coasts of British Columbia. The Kwakiutls lived in the big painted and decorated houses with sculptures. You/they were fishermen and they went in war on enormous painted canoes, and on whose bows were carved legendary figures. Their sculptures, their masks and their totem are famous today for their beauty. During their parties, calls solennii potlatches, a slave was often killed to hits of club from a killer, to the purpose to show the contempt either for prestige either to capture enslaved. The Kwakiutls had secret society, as for instance the society of the Cannibal one, whose members, thought each other, they received power from the Cannibal Spirit of the North and they performed a ceremonial dance, very spectacular. Today the Kwakiutls fish with boats and equipment modern, they work in industries of the wood and the alimentary preserves of British Columbia.
