* Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site

Trials in the Queen Charlotte Islands ( Haida Gwaii ) of British Columbia using sea water sprayed on the foliage have demonstrated promising results, which may prove to be a viable option for eradication where concerns over herbicide application are too great.

A strong environmentalist, he engaged in peaceful civil disobedience to block logging of old-growth forests at Lyell Island in Haida Gwaii in 1985 and at Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island in 1993.

His most popular works are three large bronze sculptures, two depicting a canoe filled with human and animal figures: one black, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, at the Canadian Embassy, Washington, D. C., in the United States ; and one green, The Jade Canoe, at Vancouver International Airport, in British Columbia ; and the third, Chief of the Undersea World, depicting a breaching orca, at the Vancouver Aquarium.

Two of his sculptures, Raven and the First Men and Spirit of Haida Gwaii, are prominently featured on the $ 20 note in the Bank of Canada's new Canadian Journey ( 2004 ) issue paired with a quotation from author Gabrielle Roy.

He participated in the blockades of logging roads which helped save the rain forests of Gwaii Haanas ( South Moresby ); he also stopped work on the sculpture in Washington during this period to protest the destruction of the forests of Haida Gwaii.

In July 1998 friends and relatives paddled Lootaas, a large cedar canoe carved by Reid for Expo 86, on a two-day journey along the Pacific coast to bring his ashes to Tanu Island in Haida Gwaii, the site of his mother's village.

File: Bill Reid Haida Gail 01. jpg | The Spirit of Haida Gwaii ( The Black Canoe ), Canadian Embassy, Washington, D. C., USA

Their main territory is the archipelago of Haida Gwaii in northern British Columbia, but many live across the water in southern Alaska.

Their heartland is the two large and many smaller islands known as Haida Gwaii, which means " land of the people " in Haida.

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He is responsible for creating Haida Gwaii, releasing the sun from its tiny box and making the stars and the moon.

Bill Reid's sculpture in bronze, " The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, The Jade Canoe ", is displayed in the international departures area.

The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, the Jade Canoe, located on the International departure level

* The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Haida Gwaii ( with photographs by Ulli Steltzer ) – 1991

# REDIRECT Haida Gwaii

Haida Gwaii (" Islands of the People "), unofficially the Queen Charlotte Islands, is an archipelago on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Haida Gwaii consists of two main islands: Graham Island in the north, and Moresby Island in the south, along with approximately 150 smaller islands with a total landmass of.

Some of the islands are protected under federal legislation as Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site, which is mostly Moresby Island and adjoining islands and islets ( Gwaii Haanas is the Haida name for Moresby Island ).

The Book of Common Prayer has also been translated into these North American indigenous languages: Cowitchan, Cree, Haida, Ntlakyapamuk, Slavey, Eskimo-Aleut, Dakota, Delaware, Mohawk, Ojibwe.

The Haida language has erroneously been classified as one of the Na-Dene group, but today is considered to be an isolate.

The native cultures are rich with artistic traditions including carving, weaving, orating, singing and dancing, and Juneau has become a major social center for the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian of Southeast Alaska.

Raven has been described as the greediest, most lecherous and mischievous creature known to the Haida, but at the same time Raven often helps humans in our encounters with other supernatural beings.

A lifelong student of languages, Bringhurst has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo, as well as classical Greek and Arabic.

Bringhurst, a talented linguist, has translated works from classical Greek, Arabic, Navajo, and most significantly, Haida.

However, what controversy Bringhurst ’ s writing has attracted is focused on this same work in Haida.

The Haida linguist John Enrico has recently presented ( 2004 ) new arguments which have reopened the debate.

The reverse side depicts artworks by Bill Reid, notably his sculptures Raven and the First Men and Spirit of Haida Gwaii ; it also has a quotation from Gabrielle Roy.

The Seattle area has become a nexus of many different tribal cultures from all over the country, with large influences from Coast Salish, Tlingit, Haida, and Plateau Indian cultures.

The latter has two names because its primary crest differs between the north and the south regions of Tlingit territory, probably due to influence from the neighboring tribes of Haida and Tsimshian.

The inclusion of the Na-Dené languages has been somewhat complicated by the ongoing dispute over whether Haida belongs to the family.

Edward J. Vajda, who otherwise rejects the Dené – Caucasian hypothesis, has suggested that Tlingit, Eyak, and the Athabaskan languages are closely related to the Yeniseian languages, but he denies any genetic relationship of the former three to Haida.

Haida Manga has been recently popularized by artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas who is considered as the father of Haida Manga, making its first debut in 2001 in his book, A Tale of Two Shaman which led to a series of exhibits ( such as at Expo 2005 and Tokyo Designers Week 2003 ) and multiple print runs in Japan and Korea.

Haida Manga may also appear as ink or watercolor on paper, and has also shown up on reassembled automobile parts and disassembled bone trays displayed in the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.

His council filed one of the first Aboriginal Title Cases which is before the courts and has already moved Aboriginal Law through the " Haida Taku " Case.

Haida has a major dialectal division between Northern and Southern dialects.

This artwork has been of high quality and prized around the world since the Haida first began carving it to sell to sailors around 1800 ; modern Haida carvers continue the tradition.

He developed a keen interest in Haida art while working as a radio announcer in Toronto for CBC Radio, where he also studied jewelry making at the Ryerson Institute of Technology, having first learnt about his heritage from his maternal grandfather, who had himself been trained by Charles Edenshaw, a Haida artist of great renown.

In 1951, he returned to Vancouver where he eventually established a studio on Granville Island, and became greatly interested in the works of Edenshaw, working to understand the symbolism of his work, much of which had been lost along with the many Haida traditions.

Also in 1856, the USS Massachusetts was sent from Seattle to nearby Port Gamble, where indigenous raiding parties made up of Haida ( from territory claimed by the British ) and Tongass ( from territory claimed by the Russians ) had been attacking and enslaving the Coast Salish people there.

Epic versions of the mythology by 19th century Haida storyteller-poets Skaay and Ghandl have been translated by Robert Bringhurst, whose Story as Sharp as a Knife, a collection of their works, won the Governor General's Award.

Bringhurst's translations have been credited as helping to reinvigorate the Haida culture and language, which in 1991 was considered " likely to be lost unless strong efforts are made very quickly to perpetuate them ".

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 ( Whiting 1986: 684 ).

They have also been found on the islands of the Alexander Archipelago, Prince William Sound, Kodiak Archipelago, and Haida Gwaii ( Queen Charlotte Islands ), British Columbia.

It and the rest of the Portland Canal had been the domain of the Tsetsaut people, also called the Skam-a-Kounst Indians, or Jits ' aawit in Nisga ' a, an Athapaskan people who became decimated by war and disease and were driven out of the Stewart area by either Haida or Nisga ' a in 1856-57.

* The slow progress in the reconstruction of Proto-Na-Dené, so that Haida and Athabaskan – Eyak – Tlingit have so far mostly been considered separately.

Haida manga have so far been published in several countries including Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Macao, France, and Canada.

From 1903 to 1905, District Governor John G. Brady set about acquiring Native totem poles from all over Alaska for display at the park ; the majority of the poles came from Haida villages located on Prince of Wales Island, while others had been on display at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Although a Haida-based trade pidgin may have been in use in the 1830s, the Haida were using Chinook jargon when they visited Victoria.

The practice of Haida families using English to address children spread in Masset in the 1930s, having already been practiced in Skidegate, the rationale being that this would aid the children in their school education.

The Haida have a renewed interest in their traditional culture, and are now funding Haida language programs in schools in the three Haida communities, though these have been ineffectual.