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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 820 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAIDA  , a tribe of See also:

North See also:American See also:Indians of Skittagetan stock . They still occupy their See also:original See also:home, the See also:Queen See also:Charlotte islands, See also:British See also:Columbia . They are skilful See also:seamen, making See also:long fishing expeditions in cedarwood canoes . They are noted for their See also:carving and See also:basket-See also:work . They formerly made raids on the See also:coast tribes . See also:Slavery was hereditary, the slaves being prisoners of See also:war . The See also:population, some 7000 in the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century, is now reduced to a few hundreds . See Handbook of American Indians (See also:Washington, 1907) . Fo1 " Haida Texts and Myths," see See also:Bull.29 Smithsonian Institution Burei., Amer . Ethnol . (1905) .

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