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 ...
“What’s west of Westeros?” That’s the last question we hear from Arya Stark in the final moments of Game of Thrones as she boards a ship bound for the unknown. “It’s where all the maps end,” she ...
A new nonprofit organization has been formed to support the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
With a majority Aboriginal population, the Haida Gwaii school district is using their language, heritage and culture to reach and teach their students. Third in a series. Katie Hyslop reports on ...
Fallon Crosby has a dream — to help her daughter Bella learn Haida, the language of their ancestors. “Some people say, ‘How can you say you are Haida if you don’t speak your language?’ So it’s really, ...
A rendering of the conceptual design of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s education campus. (Courtesy Tlingit and Haida) A new campus slated for Juneau will be ...
Amid the usual flurry of pre-exhibition activity at the Vancouver Art Gallery” ” painters, preparators, curators, all working in quick concert to prepare Raven Travelling for its public opening this ...
VICTORIA — The Haida people celebrated a milestone in the long life of their nation last week when a B.C. court recognized their Aboriginal title over the entire archipelago of Haida Gwaii. “This is a ...
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. That’s George Bernard Shaw, not me. He was so right. Let’s take food. In urban centres, we race to find the next cool ingredient or philosophy ...
The smell of sulphur tickles my nose, the mineral-laden waters soothing my bones as I settle deeper in the island’s hot springs, bubbling again after a 2012 earthquake stopped the flow. I watch a ...