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.
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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
Tlingit & Haida is the largest federally recognized tribe in Alaska, and hundreds of its members fish, both in commercial troll operations and for subsistence.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
We left Taxim early in the morning of the 25th of August and were ferried across the Bosphorus to Haida Pasha station.
From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John
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
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 Russell, Israel C. (Cook)
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 Huntington, Ellsworth
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 Jastrow, Morris
Those of Queen Charlotte Islands, still farther north, are known as Haidas.
From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
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