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[[File:Quatsino man with carved ceremonial bowl VPL 14057.jpg|thumb|A Gwatʼsinux man sits with a carved wooden bowl]]

[[File:Quatsino man with carved ceremonial bowl VPL 14057.jpg|thumb|A Gwatʼsinux man sits with a carved wooden bowl]]

The ”’Gwatʼsinux”’ or ”’Quatsino”’, meaning the “northern people”, for whom [[Quatsino Sound]] on northern [[Vancouver Island]] is named, are one of the main subdivisions of the [[Kwakwakaʼwakw]] peoples.<ref name=Curtis>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=398xOH44KXwC&pg=PA306&dq=%22Quatsino%22+-wikipedia&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=|title=The North American Indian. Volume 10 – The Kwakiutl.|last=Curtis|first=Edward S.|page=306|isbn=9780742698109|publisher=Classic Books Co.|access-date=December 1, 2025}}</ref>

The ”’Gwatʼsinux”’ or ”’Quatsino”’, meaning the “northern people”, for whom [[Quatsino Sound]] on northern [[Vancouver Island]] is named, are one of the main subdivisions of the [[Kwakwakaʼwakw]] peoples.<ref name=Curtis>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=398xOH44KXwC&pg=PA306&dq=%22Quatsino%22+-wikipedia&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=|title=The North American Indian. Volume 10 – The Kwakiutl.|last=Curtis|first=Edward S.|page=306|isbn=9780742698109|publisher=Classic Books Co.|access-date=December 1, 2025}}</ref>

Their legends tell of their creation by the Great Spirit, while an alternate meaning of their name is “people of the outside.”<ref name=Goodfellow>{{cite book|pages=76-78, 81-84| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRyT4umt_9oC&pg=PA76&dq=%22Quatsino%22+-wikipedia&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=|title=Talking in Context: Language and Identity in Kwakwa̲ka̲’wakw Society|first=Anne |last=Goodfellow|year=2005|isbn=9780773528758|publisher=McGill-Queen’s University Press|access-date=December 1, 2025}}</ref>

They were organized into the [[Quatsino First Nation]] as a [[band government]] during the process of colonization under the [[Indian Act]].

They were organized into the [[Quatsino First Nation]] as a [[band government]] during the process of colonization under the [[Indian Act]].


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A Gwatʼsinux man sits with a carved wooden bowl

The Gwatʼsinux or Quatsino, meaning the “northern people”, for whom Quatsino Sound on northern Vancouver Island is named, are one of the main subdivisions of the Kwakwakaʼwakw peoples.[1]

Their legends tell of their creation by the Great Spirit, while an alternate meaning of their name is “people of the outside.”[2]

They were organized into the Quatsino First Nation as a band government during the process of colonization under the Indian Act.

Their numbers were devastated by epidemics brought in by European sailors.[1]

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