Her grandmother also helped to cook, feed and support the tense Haida blockade of logging on Gwaii Haanas, standing their ground and protecting 1,500 square kilometres for a national park preserve.

Now the fashion designer is the subject of a retrospective, Raven Comes Full Circle, at the Haida Gwaii Museum. Seeing decades of her work together in one place was a moving experience for her.

Still, on Haida Gwaii, with a population of 5,000 divided evenly between Haida and non-Haida, the development is seen as a watershed. The Indigenous community spoke of colonial liberation and of ...

The pole’s story begins in Canada — specifically Haida Gwaii, which means “Islands of the Haida people,” in British Columbia. Scher Thomae believes the ancestral, or mortuary, pole was ...

Black bears and other wildlife roam on and off the Haida Gwaii archipelago. The shores are lined with dense, moss-covered forests. On the coasts, totem poles up to 53 meters high rise into the sky.

Jacobsen was dispatched to raid the treasures of the Haida Gwaii for the museum, and at the top of his “shopping list” was a totem pole. In JAJ, Yahgulanaas illuminates the many contexts of Jacobsen’s ...

A totem pole sent in 1996 by Vancouver Port Corporation to its Guangzhou counterpart as a unity symbol has since deteriorated, much like China-Canada relations Reading Time:7 minutes ...

“Totem poles represent the history of a person, family, clan or tribe,” he says. “They tell the stories, the connections to our ancestors, and how our crests or clans originated.

One of the Haida totem poles figuring as the centerpiece of the Humboldt Forum’s upcoming 2022 exhibition was purchased on Haida Gwaii for close to $65. Adjusted for inflation, Jacobsen would’ve paid ...

Many of Haida Gwaii's totem poles are thousands of years old, traditionally used by the Haida people to express kinship groups, history and to welcome visitors.