Culture
Men Gathering Together
Rhonda Lee McIsaac At the village of Hl’yaalan ‘Lngee and in the shadow of Taaw Tl’ajuu, nearly 30 men from various nations came together to learn, heal, and support one another this summer. It was […]
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art
Young Haida Artists Rise to the Top
Rhonda Lee McIsaac Haida artists and artisans are renowned for their fine weaving, sharp lines, balanced negative space, and a keen eye for details. Jurors have been busy examining their work and tallying the scores. […]
Culture
Repatriation: Making things right
Graham Richard — “The Haida Nation is so good at showing the world how to make things right,” Repatriation Committee member Sdaahl K’awas Lucy Bell told a hall of people gathered to honour kuuniisii ancestors. […]
art
Sioux Quilt Links Worlds
Graham Richard — Delegates from the World Wildlife Fund visited Haida Gwaii this September. The 11 visitors were part of the Northern Great Plains Tribal Wildlife Conservation. The conservation group partners with governments, ranchers, and […]
Basketball
WIBC: Lenguaje de amor y baloncesto (Language of love and basketball )
Rhonda Lee McIsaac — Serranos Zapotecos, Mixes and Chinantecos are coming down to sea level. The team comes from Guelatao, a village in the Sierra Madre mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, where basketball is a […]
Culture
The kiss of a hummingbird– Grade 5 cedar bark harvesting
Rhonda Lee McIsaac — Heading to the forest for an outing at the end of the school year involves a lot of patience and cooperation to get the job done and that’s exactly what the […]
Carving
Gud ad hlgang.gulxa (Working Together )
Rhonda Lee McIsaac — Naaw are super cool; they have three hearts and eight arms! Two hearts pump blood through gills and the third pumps it through the rest of the body and there are […]
Hobiiyee
Star above the bowl of the moon
Rhonda Lee McIsaac — The Nass Valley has been the home of the Nisga’a for thousands of years. After a massive volcanic eruption in the 1700’s buried the upper Nass Valley the villages and landscape […]
Haida Film Project
Translation continues
Graham Richard — A six-person team went to work on the script for the upcoming feature-length movie that will be filmed entirely in Xaayda language. Fluent northern dialect speaker Ilskyaalas Dolores Churchill and fluent southern […]
Protected Areas
Where seabirds gather
Graham Richard — At the top of Hlkinul Kaahlii Cumshewa Inlet runs a river called Gawu Kuns Gandlaay Pallant Creek. This is the home of Jiila Kuns, the owner of salmon and mother of frogs. Here her […]