Haida
Americannoun
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Haidas,
plural
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Haida
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a member of an Indian people inhabiting the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia and Prince of Wales Island in Alaska.
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the language of the Haida people, part of the Na-Dene language group.
noun
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a member of a seafaring group of North American Indian peoples inhabiting the coast of British Columbia and SW Alaska
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the language of these peoples, belonging to the Na-Dene phylum
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Premier David Eby granted Aboriginal title of Haida Gwaii—formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands—on the West Coast to the Haida Nation, who constitute only about half the archipelago’s population.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
Yes, if you like a white man with a Haida tattoo on his shoulder, he’s “still” “hot.”
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2025
Instead of being Haida, Irish, Ojibwe and British, my identities are collapsed into an acronym for ease of reference.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2023
“To me, the communities on the Yukon River, they’re the canary in the mine,” said Richard Chalyee Éesh Peterson, president of the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
In fact, among the Haida the doorway of the house was a hole cut through the lower end of the totem post.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
In 1800 the pure-blooded natives numbered 23,531, of whom 6000 were Haidas, Thlinkits or other natives of the coastal region, 1000 Aleuts, 3400 Athapascans and 13,100 Eskimo.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
The third prominent aboriginal type was that of the fishermen of the coast of British Columbia, especially the Haidas of the Queen Charlotte Islands.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
We meet the belief again on the Pacific coast of North America among the Haidas.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
When the totemic constitution of the tribe or clan is weakened, the crest may become more important than the totem, as is the case among the Haidas.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
This was apparently the reason why the Iroquois, although successful in other ways, failed to establish permanent towns like those of the Pueblos and the Haidas.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
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