Haida Gwaii, a misty archipelago off the British Columbian coast, how dramatically it has changed over the last years! The multinational timber companies that once dominated the economy and ...

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There’s a dogfish, a wolf, a transformational bear figure – in Haida mythology, animals and humans often shape-shift – and a raven, one of two moieties, or kinship groups, on Haida Gwaii and ...

In 2010, in official recognition of the Haida people who have inhabited these islands for over 14,000 years, the government of British Columbia passed legislation renaming them “Haida Gwaii ...

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Yet the Haida Gwaii agreement is notable because it covers a much larger area than the central B.C. territory of the Tŝilhqot’in. Some are saying the framework could be a model for other nations.

Today, it’s estimated there are 5,000 Haida on Haida Gwaii. Kim Pemberton was hosted by Maple Leaf Adventures, which did not review or approve this story. Follow her on Instagram at kimstravelogue.

“Haida Gwaii is not downtown Vancouver,” Rankin says. It’s a remote territory where the provincial government controlled the vast majority of the land, which is mainly protected and unprotected forest ...

Haida have lived here for 12,500 years and on the southern islands in Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area Reserve, and Haida Heritage Site, there is a battle to ...

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 ...

About 44 per cent of Haida Gwaii is Crown forest, and 35 per cent of that is considered timber harvesting land base – about 155,493 hectares – according to the chief forester’s office.

Haida Gwaii Black Bear: The largest of its kind in the world, it is recognized by its over-developed skull and jaws strong enough to crush sea urchin shells and salmon bones.