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9 unusual facts about Haida people


Carsen Gray

Carsen Leigh Gray (born 1992) is an American actress, she is descendant of the Tribe Haida, best known for playing Tiger Lily on the movie Peter Pan.

Charles F. Newcombe

In the process he became very interested in the Haida and started to collect their artifacts to "preserve" them from, what was then thought to be, the demise of the native culture.

Delores Churchill

Delores E. Churchill is a Native American artist of Haida descent.

Edward L. Keithahn

He became interested in totem poles at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington, in 1909 and later traveled to southeast Alaska and eventually lived there working "in the Indian service," as he put it (meaning perhaps employment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs), living mainly among the Tlingit and Haida people.

George Murdock

While his pre-war fieldwork had been among the Haida and other indigenous peoples of the Northwest North American coast, Murdock's interests were now focused on Micronesia, and he conducted fieldwork there episodically until the 1960s.

Gerry Marks

Gerry Marks is a Canadian First Nations artist of Haida ancestry.

Margaret B. Blackman

Margaret B. Blackman (1944- ) is an anthropologist known for her work with the Haida First Nation of the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, Canada, beginning in the 1970s.

Pamela Rae Huteson

She is both Tlingit and Haida, of the Shungkweidi Eagle moiety, from the Wolf House.

Skaay

Skaay was a blind, crippled storyteller of the Haida village of Ttanuu born c.


Bakwas

The Tlingit have kushtaka, or land-otter people; the Haida have gagit, drowned spirit ghosts; the Nootka (Nuu-Chah-Nulth) have pukubts, a name which seems etymologically related to the Kwakiutl bakwas, as is the Tsimshian ba'wis.

East Montlake Park

A plaque at the bottom of the totem pole states that it was carved in 1937 by John Dewey Wallace, a Haida chief, in Waterfall, Alaska.

Koyah

--not sure that's IPA-->, meaning "raven" (b.?-d. c.1795), was the chief of Ninstints or Skungwai, the main village of the Kunghit-Haida during the era of the Maritime Fur Trade in the Haida Gwaii of the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Simon R. Baker

Simon Richard Baker III (born March 30, 1986) is an Aboriginal Canadian actor, of Cree, Haida, and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh descent.


see also

Shamanism among Alaska Natives

The Haida People believed that they were protected by spirit beings such as the bear, raven, and owl.