Haida
noun
a member of an Indian people inhabiting the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia and Prince of Wales Island in Alaska.
Haidas
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pluralof Haida.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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 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
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
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
