Rhonda Lee McIsaac The sound of seawater lapping against the rocks at Suu liwans Gawdaas in Nang Xaldangaas Protected Area was constant as rain jacket-clad men and women clambered along the rocky shoreline. They came in search of black gold hanging from rocks or lying thick on the exposed intertidal Read more…
Rhonda Lee McIsaac The hillside adjacent to the Council of the Haida Nation building and behind Taaw Naay Gas Station and the Skidegate Band Council office has changed dramatically. About 2 hectares of forest have cleared to make way for the new 9435 square foot XaaydaGa Dlaang Society building. Excavators Read more…
The crews aboard the Haida Spirit and Haida Guardian finished surveying for sGung.ga signs of spawn as K’aawdang Kung Herring Row on Kelp Moon or April entered its third quarter. With a month of soundings, dives, and observations complete the vessels returned from Gwaii Haanas on April 24 and 25 Read more…
The road has been long, since early 2006, when the proposed Enbridge pipeline project entered the public conversation. Following that announcement the Haida nation has been vocal and engaged in stopping the project, the latest engagement being the hearing at the Federal Court of Appeal, October 1. At the Joint Review Panel hearings in Read more…
Signs tell stories and the signs posted throughout the Islands condemning the proposed Enbridge pipeline project stand with special significance in our communities. They are a reminder to ourselves of the firm position held by most everyone on Haida Gwaii and the fortitude exhibited at the 2012 Joint Review Panel Read more…
Elder and fluent Xaayda Kil speaker Sgaana Jaads K’yaa Ga Xiigans (Golie Hans) gave five youth the chance to paddle with her on a five-day kayaking trip throughout Xaana Kaahlii Gawgaay Skidegate Inlet. “To have a Haida elder spend five days on the water in a kayak, sleeping in a Read more…