Haida
Americannoun
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Haidas,
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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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“We are a far cry from where we were last year,” said Roald Helgesen, chief operating officer of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska based in Juneau.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2025
Yes, if you like a white man with a Haida tattoo on his shoulder, he’s “still” “hot.”
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2025
For instance, if I show my tattoos or wear clothing with Haida designs, I am more likely to be seen as broadly Indigenous.
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
Two short days' ride from Nicæa had brought us to Mekidje, a station on the Anatolian Railway half-way between Haida Pasha and Eskishehr.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
On the Pacific coast, the Haidas, etc., of British Columbia—and the same is true of their neighbours, the Tlingits of southeastern Alaska—have become interested as labourers in the commercial fisheries, principally the salmon industry.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
The Haidas lacked the relentless energy of the Iroquois and shared the comparatively gentle character which prevailed among all the Indians along the Pacific Coast.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
The Haidas, like the Iroquois, appear to have been a people who were still advancing.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
Those of Queen Charlotte Islands, still farther north, are known as Haidas.
From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks
Having settled dwellings, the Haidas could accumulate property and acquire that feeling of permanence which is one of the most important conditions for the development of civilization.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
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