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    Haida /ˈhaɪdə/ (X̱aat Kíl, X̱aadas Kíl, X̱aayda Kil, Xaad kil) is the language of the Haida people, spoken in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast...
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    Haida (English: /ˈhaɪdə/, Haida: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat) are an Indigenous group who have traditionally occupied Haida Gwaii, an archipelago just...
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    Haida Gwaii (/ˈhaɪdə ˈɡwaɪ/; Haida: X̱aaydag̱a Gwaay.yaay / X̱aayda gwaay, literally "Islands of the Haida people"), also known as the Queen Charlotte...
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  • The Haida are one of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their national territories lie along the west coast of Canada...
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  • Haida Nation, their collective government body Haida language, their language Haida argillite carvings, an art form that is a Haida specialty Haida manga...
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    X̱aayda kíl, the language of the Haida people. The Haida Heritage Site is within the territory of the Haida people, who have lived in Haida Gwaii for at least...
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    a family of Native American languages that includes at least the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages. Haida was formerly included, but is...
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    The Council of the Haida Nation ("CHN") (X̱aaydaG̱a Waadlux̱an Naay) is the elected government of the Haida Nation. The council consists of a president...
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    colonial actions against Haida Gwaii Authorities have been undertaken since the 19th century. The indigenous peoples of Haida Gwaii often reacted violently...
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    modern orthography of the Aleut language and in the current Alaska Native Language Center alphabet of the Haida language. In both cases, it represents the...
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  • Edge of the Knife (category Articles containing Haida-language text)
    first feature film spoken only in the Haida language. Set in 19th-century Haida Gwaii, it tells the classic Haida story of a traumatized and stranded man...
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    In the Haida language, this species is known as daayáats’ in its brown summer coat and tlag in its winter coat. The three subspecies of the Haida ermine...
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    The Spirit of Haida Gwaii is a sculpture by British Columbia Haida artist Bill Reid (1920–1998). There are two versions of it: the black canoe and the...
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    Graham Island (category Articles containing Haida-language text)
    Graham Island (Haida: X̱aaydag̱a Gwaay.yaay linag̱waay in X̱ayda Kil) is the largest island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago (previously known as the Queen...
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    Kiidk'yaas (category Haida Gwaii)
    Kiidk'yaas (meaning "ancient tree" in the Haida language), also known as the Golden Spruce, was a Sitka spruce tree (Picea sitchensis 'Aurea') that grew...
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  • the 1830s a pidgin trade language based on Haida, known as Haida Jargon, was used in the islands by speakers of English, Haida, Coast Tsimshian, and Heiltsuk...
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    Roe (category Articles containing Haida-language text)
    Traditional methods involves harvesting the naturally occurring "spawn-on-kelp" (Haida: k'aaw or eggs laid on purposefully submerged hemlock branches. Nowadays...
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    Dental and alveolar ejective stops (category Articles containing Haida-language text)
    kxʼ/. In some conventions for Haida and Hadza, double letters are used: tt kk qq ttl tts for /tʼ kʼ qʼ tɬʼ tsʼ/ (Haida) and zz jj dl gg for /tsʼ tʃʼ cʎ̥˔ʼ...
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    The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family that was formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern...
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    Totem pole (category Articles containing Haida-language text)
    Totem poles (Haida: gyáaʼaang) are monumental carvings found in western Canada and the northwestern United States. They are a type of Northwest Coast...
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    Shamanism among Alaska Natives (category Articles containing Haida-language text)
    Institute, Xaat K`il-The Haida Language[permanent dead link] Enrico, John (1995). Skidegate Haida Myths and Histories. Haida Gwaii: Queen Charolotte Islands...
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    translations into Native American languages § Haida (language isolate) Haitian Creole: Bible translations into creole languages § Haitian Creole Hakka: Bible...
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  • (CMS) arrived amongst the Haida in 1876. These missionaries initially worked in the Haida language. They wrote the language down using Latin script with...
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  • An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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    Open-mid back unrounded vowel (category Articles containing Haida-language text)
    Language in South Africa. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521791052. Lawrence, Erma (1977). Haida Dictionary. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center...
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    Hecate Strait (category Articles containing Haida-language text)
    Strait (/ˈhɛkɪt/; Haida language: K̲andaliig̲wii, also siigaay which means simply "ocean") is a wide but shallow strait between Haida Gwaii and the mainland...
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    Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles containing Haida-language text)
    Fieldwork Studies of Targeted Languages. 84. UCLA: 67–88 – via eScholarship. Enrico, John (2003). "Introduction". Haida Syntax. Vol. 1. University of...
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    Delores Churchill (category Articles containing Haida-language text)
    leading revitalization efforts for Haida, her native language. Churchill was born in Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands (now Haida Gwaii) in British Columbia, Canada...
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    Athabaskan languages are closely related to the Yeniseian languages, but he denies any genetic relationship of the former three to Haida. Vajda's ideas...
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    Sandspit, British Columbia (category Articles containing Haida-language text)
    Sandspit (Haida: K'il Kun) is the largest community on Moresby Island, in Haida Gwaii off the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. The only town...
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