Haida
Americannoun
plural
Haidas,plural
Haida-
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
Other Word Forms
- Haidan adjective
Example Sentences
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Premier David Eby granted Aboriginal title of Haida Gwaii—formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands—on the West Coast to the Haida Nation, who constitute only about half the archipelago’s population.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
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
In that year Haida, chief of a small district south of Hootooala, made an attack, assisted by the Chinese, on some neighboring clans.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
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