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  1. A member of a North American Indian people
  2. who live on both sides of the N entrance to
  3. the Queen Charlotte Strait in British
  4. Columbia. Their language belongs to the
  5. Wakashan family. They are one of the NW coast
  6. tribes famed for their potlatches, status
  7. festivals involving a lavish consumption,
  8. even destruction, of goods.
  9.