George Hunt: en kwakwaka’wakw livshistorie by Tove Tybjerg

Subjects: “…Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl); Hopi; Autobiography; Shamanism; George Hunt; Franz Boas; Edward S. …”
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Northwest Coast Ceremonialism: The Works of J.A. Jacobsen (1853-1947) by Aaron Glass

“…In an attempt to publicize his adventures and legitimize his collections for scholars and curators, he wrote a few articles in German about the people he had visited, especially the so-called secret societies among the Nuxalk [Bella Coola] and Kwakwaka’wakw [Kwakiutl]. Although somewhat amateurish, these reports represent a transition in genre between travel accounts and professional ethnography, and are valuable for informing our understanding of early Northwest Coast anthropology. …”
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Native American ataxia medicines rescue ataxia-linked mutant potassium channel activity via binding to the voltage sensing domain by Rían W. Manville, J. Alfredo Freites, Richard Sidlow, Douglas J. Tobias, Geoffrey W. Abbott

“…Abstract There are currently no drugs known to rescue the function of Kv1.1 voltage-gated potassium channels carrying loss-of-function sequence variants underlying the inherited movement disorder, Episodic Ataxia 1 (EA1). The Kwakwaka’wakw First Nations of the Pacific Northwest Coast used Fucus gardneri (bladderwrack kelp), Physocarpus capitatus (Pacific ninebark) and Urtica dioica (common nettle) to treat locomotor ataxia. …”
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