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
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
The paper proper is followed by an appendix by Gibbs and Dall, in which are presented a series of vocabularies from the northwest, including dialects of the Tlinkit and Haida nations, T’sim-si-ans, and others.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by John Wesley Powell
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
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
Another evidence of the fairly advanced state of the Haidas was their active commercial intercourse with regions hundreds of miles away.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
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
The Haidas, on the contrary, were showing real originality.
From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington
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