Where, and roughly when, did the eagle clan come from??
I'm getting way off subject sorry guys
But in a way it reflect how climate change has can have a dramatic impact on are environment
I am continuously learning about my culture and history it part of being a Haida artist what we are going through is nothing new
I'm not totally sure Gunneegoogoo I do know it was after the raven clan
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http://haidagwaiihistory.########.ca/2012/06/dna-study-illuminates-haida-history.html
Here's A story from a Haida elder from Alaska oral history
Written by Woody Morrison
n Sangáa Morrison
ICE AGE
The weather started changing, there were more and more storms, the atmosphere was no longer pleasant all the time, foods that were once plentiful, were disappearing. The tides no longer reached their high-water marks, gradually they dropped lower and lower; the ocean level began to drop and the rivers ran faster.
The first thing we noticed was the tide, the ocean currents began to behave differently. The atmosphere (weather) was different; it rained real hard but there wasn't as much as before. It got warm and the trees started to die... things that weren't in the ocean before started showing up. Lots of things changed. A cold dry wind came from the north and certain plants started to die then, we got Sáahliigaast - Wind from the Sky. It blew straight down and was so cold that if it hit the water, the water shattered; anything it hit froze.
Cloak People
It was also during this time that Gyaat'aat X̱aat'aay (Cloak People) told us of the coming of the Hard Cold and, we would need to prepare ourselves for it. These new-comers wore a covering over their shoulders and backs made from the pelt of the Giant (Short-Faced) Bear, to protect themselves from the cold. This they taught us to catch and remove its hide. In exchange we taught them to make Tlúu Ínwaay (the Half canoe), a low, flat dugout (which was the original design used by X̱aadas for making “Ocean-Walking-Platforms” - the fore-runners to the dug-out canoes - floating platforms), "pulled by the Tide Lines". They were fastened together like catamarans.
Gyaat'aat X̱aat'aay (the Cloak People) stayed for a long time, and nearly perished with us when we were trapped by the ice. We were led through the ice to safety by Kelg Jaat Ice-woman (she was the first Human Hero) and, when we were free of the ice the Cloak People announced to us it was time to depart , “for our destination awaits.” They departed and some X̱aat'áay went with them.
X̱aadas who remained had a hard time staying alive. The beach kept moving out, away from the villages so the people had to walk a long ways to get to the ocean. Then after a very, very long time the beach started coming back in; the winters were shorter; we had to move back away from the ocean.
At a later time a second People, walking among the mountains came to a river and followed it to the coast; to our homelands. They were a nosy people (Guusawaa Xaat'aay) who kept trying to tell us how we should live. They were afraid of the ocean. They finally left, going south to their own destination.
The beach continued to come in and, the big rivers keep moving inland. Some short, dark-skinned people walked out from the mountains; they were South People… They needed somebody to make “boats” for them so they could continue their journey. X̱̱aadas gathered the materials and once again began making them. One of our men wanted to marry up with one of their women. Sgáagaas counseled against it; this would change the nature of the People; they were opposed to the marriage. That man and his family went ahead with the marriage and, the People split.
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