Haida language
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Haida is the language of the Haida people, spoken in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of western Canada and on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. An endangered language, Haida currently has 24
A woman hangs posters with the Haida words for various facial features
Haida text on Old Massett welcome sign
Haida people
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The Haida are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. They constitute one of 203 First Nations in British Columbia and 231 federally recognized tribes in Alaska.
Haida language
…Haida (X̱aat Kíl, X̱aadas Kíl, X̱aayda Kil, Xaad kil) is the language of the Haida people, spoken in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of western Canada and on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. An endangered language, Haida currently…
Houses and totem poles, 1878
Young Haida woman with lip plate, portrayed in George Dixon's (1789): Voyage autour du monde
Haida drummers and singers greet guests on the shores of Ḵay Linagaay, a millennia-old village in Haida Gwaii.
Haida wait for their Heiltsuk hosts to welcome them to sing and dance at a peace potlatch in Waglisla.