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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As somebody that grew up in British Columbia around the Haida and the different tribes that come from there, it’s steeped in my genes to recognize that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
“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
Exceptions to this rule are found among the Haida, where both eagle and raven are in the eagle phratry.
From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas
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
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
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
The Haidas dwelt where both bodily strength and mental activity were stimulated.
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
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