CA-K482Indigenous peoples & reconciliation
George Hunt, Kwakwaka’wakw ethnographer
Factual accuracy review: No recorded challenge
No recorded challenge is not proof of accuracy. A challenge under review is not a finding that the item is false.
George Hunt, born at Fort Rupert to English and Tlingit parents and fully accepted into Kwakwaka’wakw society, was one of the most outstanding ethnographers of West Coast Indigenous peoples. He worked to preserve and share his people’s traditional knowledge, recording, translating and interpreting material that revealed the richness of Kwakwaka’wakw culture.
Scope & context
Hunt as described in his designation.
Sources behind this record
1
George Hunt National Historic Person ↗
Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)
Importance; plaque text