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 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…
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will take a piece of history away with them after their visit on Haida Gwaii. They will receive a t’aaGuu as a gift from the Haida Nation. This is a symbol of power and provision, fashioned from a sheet of copper. Haida carver Gwaliga Read more…
BC commissioned a Yellow cedar aal from artist Yaahl ‘Aadaa (Cori Savard). The paddle will be presented as a gift from the Province to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge by Premier Christy Clark on 26 September 2016. Yaahl ‘Aadaa’s design is of classic Haida formline and incorporates a painted Read more…
Rhonda McIsaac — The slick brown face of a Sdllguu river otter hlgiits’idýaaga bobbing out of the water eats the discarded remains of a salmon head at the Yaagun Gandlaay Yakoun River boat launch area. I sit waiting on the riverbank for Xuhlyaang Reverend Lily Bell as she travels from Read more…
By Tawla Jaad — Lined up at the ferry dock waiting for the Kwuna, students from the Haida classes at Gidgalang Kuuyas Naay grades 8 through 12 equipped with backpacks, k’aas st’aas.sk’aayah gumboots and xaw sk’aang.uu fishing rods wait to make the trip to K’aasda Gandlaay Copper River. The students are Read more…
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 it past the fish fence at K’aasda Gandlaay Copper River. Families have been busy since Read more…
By Tawla Jaad — On May 28, 2016, the largest HlGaagilda Skidegate Haida graduating class ever, received gung.alang.uu gyaa’ad button blankets as they prepare to embark on an exciting new stage in their lives. The Taajuu xuud Sk’aajus Naay George Brown Recreation Centre decorated with balloons and flowers, was filled with Read more…
By Rhonda Lee McIsaac — Linang herring in Xaana Kaahlii GawGaay Skidegate Inlet have more nuisances to worry about than being picked on by hungry ts’aag eagles, sk’in seagulls, k’yaaluu cormorants, xuud seals, kay sea lions, kun whales or herring fishers. Haida Fisheries team member, Taaiixou Robert Russ recently checked Read more…
“Then [Nang Kilsdlas (Raven)] came to a house just behind the last on shore, in which a man lived who had a walking-stick covered with the suckers of the octopus along the sides from top to bottom. Raven wanted to borrow this stick in order to reach the floating house, Read more…