HAIDA NATION

“The Haida of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) have fascinated all who have visited [them] from the first travelers and explores to the late eighteenth century to the anthropologists of the present. Early visitors to the Haida has presented culture, social organization in complex and rich in artistic expression, which displayed a fine balance and fulfilling nature between man and the natural world and supernatural worlds."

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"With continued exposure to the pressures, both spiritual and material of European culture this balance was disrupted and the traditional Haida way of life came close to extinction. Today however, the Haida [look towards the future with hope], bolstered by recent development, that hold great potential for reinforcing their cultural revival” (Macdonald, 1998)