'That Which Makes Us Haida' (fwd link)

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'That Which Makes Us Haida'
Less than 40 fluent speakers of the Haida language remain, but they
won't let it go without a fight.

By Heather Ramsay, Today, TheTyee.ca
Canada

That Which Makes Us Haida: The Haida Language
Scott Steedman, Jisgang, Nika Collison, editors. Photographs by Farah Nosh.
Haida Gwaii Museum (2011)

"We're waking up after decades of silence; we're decolonizing our
minds. Central to this process is the Haida language. Our language is
who we are; through it we are turning back the tide of cultural
unlearning and creating a Haida future rich with history, language and
a worldview for our children and their children, as id Kuuniisii (our
ancestors) did for us." -- Nika Collison, Haida Gwaii Museum curator.

Larger than life, the faces of some of the last fluent speakers of the
Haida language line the wall at the Haida Gwaii Museum. The stunning
portraits of elders in Skidegate, Old Massett and Alaska who are
keeping the language alive were taken by Vancouver-based photographer
Farah Nosh, and are documented in a new book, That Which Makes Us
Haida: The Haida Language.

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