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For thousands of years, Haida canoes carried our people, our stories, and our trade across vast ocean waters. At the heart of these journeys were woven Haida sails — powerful symbols of ingenuity, artistry, and survival

Today, the Haida Sails Resurgence Project is a groundbreaking, multi-year initiative bringing together Haida weavers, cultural knowledge holders, and community members to weave a future anchored in our past. Born of resilience, innovation, and self-determination, the project sets sail from ancestral roots to chart a path toward cultural resurgence.

Ocean voyaging canoes, carved from old-growth cedar were once fitted with intricately woven cedar sails, transformed the sea into a pathway of connection for trade, marriage, kinship, and shared oral history stories across the Pacific. Although colonial pressures led to the fading of woven sails, this ancestral knowledge was never truly lost. It has lived within our oral history stories, in captains’ logs, ethnographers' sketches, waiting for the right moment to be brought out of concealment.

That moment is now.

At the very heart of the resurgence of Haida sail making is the Haida law, or way of being.
Gina ‘waadluxan gud ad kwaagid, everything depends on everything else–we are all woven together and interconnected.

For questions or assistance, please contact info@haidasails.com