Eagle
Raven
By: Megan Daniels
► Lived
on Haida Gwaii,
now known as the
Queen Charlotte Islands,
off the northern coast of
British Columbia.
► Haida inhabited Haida
Gwaii until the end of
the last ice age.
► One of the oldest
populations in the New
World.
Haida Gwaii
► First
traces of the
Haida were roughly
flaked stone tools.
► The Haida primarily
hunted and fished and
harvested shellfish.
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The Haida culture was
divided into two social
groups, or moieties, called
Raven and Eagle.
Marriages took place
between a Raven and an
Eagle.
To determine which moiety
you would be in depended
on which your mother was.
► Each
moiety was
divided into 22-23
lineages, or families.
► It is very important to
the owner’s status and
association with
designs.
► Believed
in medicine
people, who gained
powers from
supernatural beings.
► They would receive
“powers” from the sun,
moon, or the tundra's.
► Dress in a dancing
blanket, and help cure
people who were sick.
► When
the time came
parents would look for
a mate for their child.
► Had to be someone
from outside their
village, and of equal
rank.
► Gifts would be
exchanges between
the two families.
► Held
by the father of a
girl who has become a
special age.
► He’d host a great feast
and invite many
people, like family, but
mainly unmarried men.
► He’d save for this for a
long time. At the end
of the feast he would
distribute his savings.
► Carved
and decorated
masks.
► Masks were used for
ceremonies.
► Usually held in winter
because there was
little to do.
► Last as long as a
month
Summer
► Usually went barefoot
► Stayed in and wore
nothing except broad
brim hats to protect
eyes from sun
Winter
► Leather moccasins
► Seal or deerskin
leggings
► Wore
skirts, tunics, or
sarongs made from
deer skin, or the soft
inner bark of the
cedar tree.
► Wore mask-like
headdresses
for special occasions.
► They
wore headpieces
were carved from
wood and were
decorated.
► Wore highly expensive
chilkat blankets.
► They
either walked or
went by canoe
► Canoes were made of
cedar trees.
► Outside was blackened
by charring and oiling.
► Large canoes held 30
people, and small
canoes were used to
hunt and fish.
► Houses
made out of
cedar and spruce trees
and used all parts of
the tree. 8 m high, 912 m wide, and 45 m
long
► Hold around several
hundred people.
► Fire pit in the middle
and all slept around in
on a platform.
► They
had a political
structure included
commoners, slaves,
and nobles .
► Nobles could hunt,
commoners could hunt
at a price, slaves had
no rights.
► Social rank was very
important.
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The Haida language is part
of the Na-Dene family, no
close relation to any other
language.
English
Haida
One
Sgwáansang
Two
Sdáng
Three
Hlgúnahl
Four
Stánsang
Five
Tléihl
Man
Íihlangaa
Woman
Jáadaa
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