Skil Jaadee White For more than six decades, basketball has played a huge part in our experience as Haida. If you don’t play the sport yourself, you surely have family and friends who play in the annual All Native Basketball Tournament. Every winter, excitement builds as the Haida Nation prepares Read more…
Graham Richard August 13-17, the Rediscovery Camp at T’aalan Stl’ang Lepas Bay hosted 39 participants including Elders, students, teachers, learners, babies, mentors, and apprentices of the Haida language. Rediscovery Camps started at T’aalan Stl’ang on Haida Gwaii in 1978. Since then, they have provided opportunities for Haida to grow stronger Read more…
Jaskwaan Bedard It is an exciting time for the Haida language. Known as Xaad kil in the northern dialect and Xaayda kil in the southern dialect, our language is entering a time of growth and rebirth. Today as Haida, we are calling ourselves by our Haida names; we recognize and Read more…
Rhonda Lee McIsaac Haida language learner Haana Edenshaw travelled to New York this spring to deliver a message before the United Nations. Haana presented at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Friday, April 26, 2019 on the topic of Sustainable Development. There she delivered a Joint Statement of Read more…