The Vikings of the Pacific - Part One

Origins and Culture of the Haida People

Nestled into the misty coastline of the northern Pacific, just off the edge of British Columbia, is a small archipelago of islands known as Xaadala Gwayee - ‘the islands at the boundary of the world’. Known previously as the Queen Charlotte Islands and now as Haida Gwaii, this small remote place is home to one of the most enigmatic cultures in Native Am…