Visitor Resources
At the edge of the Earth just off the northern coast of BC Canada is a group of islands that is known as the “Galápagos of the North”. Haida Gwaii is your destination for unique adventures and experiences. Learn more about this beautiful place by visiting our favourite websites and reading some of these suggested books.
Websites
Books + Guides
The Inconvenient Indian: 21 Things you may not have known about the Indian Act • Bob Joseph [2018]
Medicine Unbundled • Gary Geddes [2017]
Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe
The Spirit of Haida Gwaii • Ulli Stelzer [1997]
All That We Say Is Our • Ian Gill [2009]
A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World • Robert Bringhurst
Being in Being: The collected works of Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay • Robert Bringhurst
The Raven Steals the Light: Native American tales • William Reid & Robert Bringhurst
*That Which makes us Haida: The Haida Language Book • Scott Steedman, Jisgang, Nika Collison, editors. Photographs by Farah Nosh
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed • John Vaillant [2005]
Haida Gwaii Queen Charlotte Islands: Land of Mountains, Mist and Myth • George Fischer [2006]
Paradise Won: The Struggle for South Moresby • Elizabeth May
Those Born at Koona: The Totem Poles of the Haida Village Skedans • John Smyly and Carolyn Saanichton: Hancock House Publishers [1973]
Skidegate Haida Myths & Histories • John R. Swanton, collected by J. Enrico
Food Plants of Coastal First People • Nancy Turner - Handbook Royal BC Museum UBC Press, [1995]