The community-owned project is aimed at improving emergency services, education and small business, local leaders say, with the internet provider suggesting it could be the first stage in improving ...
Less than 40 fluent speakers of the Haida language remain, but they won't let it go without a fight. Heather Ramsay is a Tyee contributing editor who lives in Queen Charlotte City on Haida Gwaii. Find ...
If making a feature film in a language that only a handful of people speak is a box- office risk, the team behind Edge of the Knife really does not care. Currently in production on Haida Gwaii, Edge ...
First, the Haida brought their ancestors home from museums around the world; now, they've come for their belongings. Marsha Lederman examines what the mountain goat moon chest means to communities ...
Back in the 1970s, among the few hundred residents of the rough-and-tumble logging and fishing town of Massett on the Queen Charlotte Islands, there was a scallywag by the name of Gary Edenshaw. When ...
The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Traditonal Haida ...
Sealaska Heritage Institute has released the first children’s book in the Haida language Xaad Kíl through its Baby Raven Reads program. “Nang Jáadaa Sgáana ‘Láanaa aa Isdáayaan,” or “The Woman ...
Dinners in Roberta Olson’s restaurant begin with a taste of k’aaw. The dried herring roe on kelp is a traditional food for the Haida people, an Indigenous nation that has called Canada’s Haida Gwaii ...
One day soon, Graham Richard and the rest of his Haida community will gather in a theatre to watch the movie they created together in their own ancient language. Richard can only imagine what that ...
Reporting from Haida Gwaii, Canada — The aroma of coffee drifted into my cabin along with the distant squawking of seagulls, but it was a gentle swaying that reminded me I was waking on a boat. I ...
The first feature shot entirely in the Haida language is an incantatory visit to a faraway time and place that is somehow still with us, in more than ghostly form. Shot in various parts of Haida Gwaii ...