Haida的意思|Haida的解释-里氏词典

Haida

['haidә]
n.
(居住在北美的印第安)海达族人[语]

haida

[ noun ]

a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska

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Their artistic tradition has been largely preserved, and they are culturally alert and relatively enterprising. Haida activists have been negotiating aggressively with the Canadian government for administrative rights over the entire southern chain.
There is still an emotional divide between what locals refer to as the 'hippies' and the 'rednecks.' The Haida, who once flourished everywhere in the southern archipelago, now live in reservations outside the main towns on the northern island.
A 700-mile web of logging roads connects this Haida Indian village to the rest of Alaska's Prince of Wales Island.
Pitched battles were fought over clear-cutting in the 1980s, with mainland environmentalists joining the politically savvy Haida in a coalition against the logging barons and the provincial government.
The forest floor is a spooky moss-covered undulation of fallen trees being digested. All 400 former Haida settlements, with their large wooden clan houses, have been reclaimed by the rainforest.
When land was being handed out, the village's Haida Corp. received mostly scrub timber and is just now struggling out of bankruptcy court.

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