Haida

Haida may refer to:

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 ethnic group of North America (Canada)
  • Council of the Haida Nation, their collective government body
  • 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

See also

• Hada (disambiguation)
• Hadda (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Haida
• All pages with titles containing Haida