Tag: Haida
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Tattoos Represent Status, Spiritual Devotion Among Haida
The Leader Post delves into the age-old practice of tattooing by the Haida peoples: …the Haida practiced tattooing for generations before European contact. “The tattoo marks themselves were indicative of status, spiritual devotion and decoration,” the centre explains on its website. Individuals expressed their part in a social unit, a moiety, or a lineage through…
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Haida People’s Rogue Geoengineering Project Condemned by Scientists
NPR’s Morning Edition recently grappled with the issue of geoengineering. The program discussed the Haida people’s 2012 attempt to bring salmon back to their waters, by using iron dust to create an algae bloom, and the scientific community’s response to it. In the summer of 2012, a small group of the Haida people, a native…
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