Creating the first feature-length Haida-language film was a labor-intensive process. Gwaii Edenshaw, co-writer and co-director of “SGaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife),” who lives near Haida Gwaii, ...
HIELLEN, British Columbia — Speaking Haida for the first time in more than 60 years looked painful. Sphenia Jones' cheeks glistened with sweat, and her eyes clenched shut. She tried again to produce ...
On October 19th, Laurel Weldon, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at SFU and Panayiotis Pappas, Chair of the Department of Linguistics, travelled to Old Masset in Haida Gwaii to ...
In an early scene of “SG̲aawaay Ḵ’uuna” (“Edge of the Knife”), a group of women sits beside racks of drying halibut, which hang like streamers in the dim interior of a longhouse. The women smoke ...
“Imagine a world without art. Now imagine if you were the one to help bring it back.” These two lines, delivered by an animated Haida Spirit in the Haida language, capture the essence of Christopher ...
A Haida mother and daughter are sharing stories about the children in their family in a new bilingual children's book. Lynn Hughan and Carsen Gray said that they had always wanted to write a book ...
On March 28, 2024, British Columbia and the Council of the Haida Nation released the draft Gaayhllxid • Gíihlagalgang “Rising Tide” Haida Title Lands Agreement (“Draft Agreement”) which would ...
Known as the Canadian Galápagos for its endemic wildlife, including the ubiquitous Sitka deer visible along the islands’ only main road, this 155-mile-long, torch-shaped archipelago hangs underneath ...
Leonie Sandercock receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for ongoing research on the impact of the film, Edge of the KNife , on the Haida community, on Haida ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. ON A BRISK JULY morning, hundreds of miles from his art studio near Vancouver, Robert ...
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