The Kwikwasut'inuxw are one of the many subgroups of the
Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of the
Central Coast of British Columbia
The British Columbia Coast, popularly referred to as the BC Coast or simply the Coast, is a geographic region of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia. As the entire western continental coastline of Canada ...
, Canada. Their ancestral home is at
Gwayasdums on
Village Island, which was destroyed by the Nuxalk in 1856.
The Kwikwasut'inuxw, historically spelled Kwicksutaineuk or Kwiksootainuk and other variants, are part of two-present-day band governments, the
Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis First Nation and the
Mamalilikulla-Qwe'Qwa'Sot'Em Band. Descendants of the survivors of the destruction of Gwayasdums who found refuge with the
Mamalilikulla at
Memkumlis self-identify today as the
Qwe'Qwa'Sot'Enox.
References
Kwakwaka'wakw
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