Xaad Kilang T'alang Dagwiieehldaang

• Main Author: Bell, Lucy
• Other Authors: Urbanczyk, Suzanne Claire
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: language revitalization; Haida; Northwest Coast; indigenous; traditional food; traditional medicine; traditional healing; spirituality; supernatural; ritual; ceremony; First Nations; xaad kil; aboriginal; language isolate; Kil; haida
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7293

The Haida language, Xaad Kil is dangerously close to extinction and in need of heroic action. The purpose of this study is to find out what ancient traditions and beliefs we could incorporate into our language revitalization efforts. Drawing on archival literature and community knowledge, I found al...