With every chisel strike, Haida carver TJ Young brought history to life with the 360-degree totem pole standing at the ...

The Haida have been credited with being among the creators of totems. After centuries of constructing totems to tell their stories, Haida ancestors were persuaded by European missionaries to shun ...

Haida houses had elaborate totem poles attached to the front of the house, carved with animals that represented the clan that lived in the house. Some houses had a round or oval hole in the bottom of ...

When Masset, a Haida village in Haida Gwaii (formerly known ... life that faded more than two generations ago when the great totems were toppled by the missionaries and the costly potlatch was ...

Given his father’s name, Owt’iwans was born in Yan, Haida Gwaii in 1879. As a carver, he was often called ‘Captain’ because he favoured carving canoes which he would sell to tourists visiting the area ...