On this day 50 years ago Haida raised the first gya’aang cedar monument at Gaw Tlagee in close to a century. The day marked the resurgence of a carving tradition Haida have developed since the first ts’uu Red cedar arrived in Haida Gwaii. Guud sans glans Robert Davidson carved the Read more…
On the weekend of November 5, 2017, Haida women from across the Islands and from away, gathered for the Haida Women’s Dialogue Session in HlGaagilda Skidegate – the first of a three-part series hosted by the Haida Gwaii Women’s Dialogue Sessions project. Collectively led by the Council of the Haida Read more…
The Haida nation’s legal team, Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, Michael Jackson, David Patterson and Elizabeth Bulbrook, presented the nation’s arguments yesterday at the Federal Court of Appeal, challenging the approval of the Enbridge pipeline project. The Haida team was part of thirteen applicants seeking to have the federal government’s approval of the Read more…
Well over 2000 people received and shared the journal A Resounding Voice – Haida Gwaii speaks to the Enbridge Joint Review Panel (2013). Last week we published four points of view, follow are four more of the up-standing folks who call Haida Gwaii home. At the Joint Review Panel hearings 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…