Haida
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Haida people
Many uses of the word derive from the name of an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America.
- Haida people, an Indigenous people of Canada and the United States
- Council of the Haida Nation, their collective government body in British Columbia
- Haida language, their language
- Haida argillite carvings, an art form that is a Haida specialty
- Haida manga, a hybrid art form combining traditional Haida art and Japanese manga
Places
- Haida, an old name for Nový Bor
- Haida Gwaii, meaning "Islands of the People", formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands
- Haida Islands, a different archipelago near Bella Bella, British Columbia
Ships
- SS Haida, a 1909-built steamship that served in the US Navy as USS Quincy (AK-10)
- USCGC Haida (WPG-45), United States Coast Guard cutter in commission from 1921 to 1947
- Haida, a German-built American yacht of 1929, in US Navy service 1940–1946 as USS Argus (PY-14); currently yacht Haida 1929
- HMCS Haida (G63), Canadian Tribal-class destroyer that served from 1943 to 1963
Education
- Hai-Da, abbreviation for Hainan University, from the Mandarin Chinese Hainan Daxue
People with the surname
- Mahjoub Haïda (born 1970), Moroccan middle-distance runner
- Moses Haida (fl. 17th–18th centuries), German mathematician
- Samuel Haida (1626–1685), Bohemian Kabbalist
- Yukihiko Haida (灰田 有紀彦; 1909–1986), Japanese composer and musician
Literature & Media
- Haida, a character in Aggressive Retsuko