a member of an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast, particularly the islands of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia and Southeast Alaska; also their language.
From 'Haida' in the Haida language, meaning 'the people'; the term refers to both the ethnolinguistic group and their distinct language, which is endangered but being revitalized.
Haida art is famous worldwide for totem poles, but what's remarkable is that their language has subject-object-verb word order like Japanese, suggesting ancient linguistic connections scientists are still exploring.
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