L-R: 'Yaanahuu, tech assistant; SG_aamsgid, actor; Guuhlgiijuu, tech assistant; Gwaai Edenshaw; scriptwriter and film director; GwaaG_anad, fluent HlG_aagilda X_aayda Kil speaker, teacher, and translator; Jaskwaan, Haida language champion; Ilskyaalas, fluent G_aaw X_aad Kil speaker, teacher, and translator
L-R: ‘Yaanahuu, tech assistant; SGaamsgid, actor; Guuhlgiijuu, tech assistant; Gwaai Edenshaw; scriptwriter and film director; GwaaGanad, fluent HlGaagilda Xaayda Kil speaker, teacher, and translator; Jaskwaan, Haida language champion; Ilskyaalas, fluent Gaaw Xaad Kil speaker, teacher, and translator
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 dialect speaker GwaaGanad Diane Brown worked together from December 18-20 at SHIP in HlGaagilada. They had assistance from language champion Jaskwaan, script-writer and director Gwaai Edenshaw, as well as tech assistants Guhlgiijuu Kyle Shannon and ‘Yaanahuu Geoff Horner.
This August a Haida-language team set forth from Gaaw to survey the north and west coasts of Haida Gwaii. Guided by elders’ teachings, the Haida language, historical records, and century -old maps, they learned and […]
Tuul gundlas cyaal xaada The Rainbow Creek Dancers converged at Juneau, Alaska for four days of singing and dancing at Celebration, a cultural festival. Between the various groups arriving from Haida Gwaii and Vancouver they hauled heavy […]
Rhonda Lee McIsaac and video by Tawla Jaad — “Ten thousand taax̲id t’algiiyuu dang G̲a dii k’uuga ga” I love you more than 10, 000 taaxid (sockeye) – and even more than that have made […]
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