On January 21, 2021, CHN welcomed over 50 people from both Hlɢ̲aagilda Skidegate and Gaw Tlagee Old Massett online on zoom to share how CHN’s Marine Planning Program is protecting marine resources for Haida citizens. The evening started off with a welcome by Haida Nation President Gaagwiis Jason Alsop, Read more…
Submitted by Gwaii Haanas Archipelago Co-Chairs Suudahl Cindy Boyko and Nang Kaa Klaagangs Ernie Gladstone This article includes Xaayda kil. Here on Haida Gwaii, we are familiar with the story of kuu sea otter. Until 150 years ago and the maritime fur trade, people and kuu coexisted in the waters Read more…
On July 10, 2019 the Council of the Haida Nation and Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced the completion of the SGaan Kinghlas-Bowie Seamount Gin Siigee Tl’a Damaan Kinggangs Gin K’aalaagangs Marine Protected Area Management Plan at Tluu Xaadaa Naay Canoe People House in Gaw Tlagee. The completion of the SGaan Kinghlas-Bowie Read more…
Graham Richard At Tuuhlga, a village west of Yaan, people walked to Tl’agadiiyaa Hidden Island to collect ts’a.al Pacific silverweed, an important food plant. A stone with a red face growing on it lived in the centre of a lake behind the village. Many laughed at the stone as they Read more…
The Haida Nation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Oceana Canada and Ocean Networks Canada are mounting a sixteen-day expedition to learn more about the SGaan Kinghlas, Dellwood and Explorer seamounts situated near Haida Gwaii. Haida Nation Intern Marine Biologist, Jaasaljuus (JJ) Yakgujanaas , will be joining the crew aboard the Ocean Read more…
Graham Richard — A new era of restoration has begun at the mouth of Gámdas Gandlee Kamdis River. Once described as a ‘fish factory’, the wetland forest served as an abundant salmon nursery with the area’s streams running directly into a rich estuary ideal for juvenile salmon. The resulting natural Read more…
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 husband Nang Kilsdlas built the house where she bore five sons and five daughters. These Read more…
Captain Gold with the whale pole at SGang Gwaay in 1983. CHN Archives.
Many secrets loom beneath the surface of the K‘aygang.nga, the canon of Haida ancestral stories. From the time of the glaciers, 14,000 year ago, Kuuniisii our ancestors preserved these records by passing them into the current generation. Through an intergenerational custom of rigorous discipline, historical experts learned to recite the Read more…
Hot water is flowing again at Gandll K’in Gwaay.yaay Hotspring Island! The thermal pools, located in Gwaii Haanas Haida Heritage Site and National Park Reserve, dried up following the 7.7 magnitude earthquake which rattled Haida Gwaii in late 2012. In 2013 Parks Canada scientists discovered hot water seeps above ground Read more…