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art

Warm Feet at the G̲aw Youth Centre

Ileah Mattice The soft leather lays on the table and the thread spills from the spool as crafters eagerly pull thread through slender needles. The fall season is the perfect time to stay in with family and do crafts, and what better way than going to the Gaw Youth Centre Read more…

By info@haidanation.com, 7 yearsOctober 17, 2018 ago
Agreement

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 the third year of the Men’s Health Gathering, facilitated by Chee Mamuk and is part Read more…

By info@haidanation.com, 7 yearsSeptember 4, 2018 ago
Agreement

Nang X̲aldangaas

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…

By info@haidanation.com, 7 yearsAugust 27, 2018 ago
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. In this year’s round of art prizes, two major competitions have recognized the works of Read more…

By info@haidanation.com, 7 yearsJune 13, 2018 ago
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. “We’ve got such a good reputation for doing things right. We started the journey of Read more…

By info@haidanation.com, 8 yearsOctober 20, 2017 ago
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 first nations to restore and enhance biodiversity in the region. Delegates met with CHN staff Read more…

By info@haidanation.com, 8 yearsOctober 11, 2017 ago
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 way of life and where champions are born, raised, praised, and remembered by fans of Read more…

By info@haidanation.com, 8 yearsAugust 8, 2017 ago
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 Chief Matthews Xaad Kil Sk’adada Leeygaas, Haida language teacher, K’aayhlt’aa Xuhl Rhonda Bell’s Grade 5 Read more…

By info@haidanation.com, 8 yearsJuly 14, 2017 ago
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 about 300 different types of naaw in the world. They may seem creepy to some Read more…

By info@haidanation.com, 8 yearsJuly 6, 2017 ago
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 were forever altered by the lava flows. The salamanders which lived in the lakes and Read more…

By info@haidanation.com, 8 yearsFebruary 28, 2017 ago

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