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Kwakiutl music
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| Indigenous music of North America: Topics |
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|---|---|
| Native American/First Nations | Inuit and Metis |
| Chicken scratch | Ghost Dance |
| Hip hop | Native American flute |
| Peyote song | Powwow |
| Tribal music | |
| Arapaho | Blackfoot |
| Dene | Innu |
| Iroquois | Kiowa |
| Navajo | Ojibwe |
| Omaha | Kwakiutl |
| Pueblo (Hopi, Zuni) | Seminole |
| Sioux (Lakota, Dakota) | Yuman |
| Related topics | |
| Music of the United States - Music of Canada | |
The Kwakiutl are an Aboriginal people in Canada. Their folk music is primarily religious and ritual, and is based around percussive instrumentation, especially rattles and whistles. The four-day Klasila festival was an important cultural display of song and dance; it occurs just before the advent of the tsetseka, or winter.
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