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Haidah

Haidah is the archaic form of Haida.

Meaning of Haida

Noun

Haida (plural Haidas or Haida)

  1. A member of an indigenous people of the Northwest Coast of North America who live primarily in British Columbia and Alaska.
    • The first recorded European contact with the Haida was by the Spanish explorer Juan Perez in 1774 at Langara Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Soon the Haida were caught up in the lucrative fur trade, and the time they spent hunting sea otters and other marine mammals greatly increased.2003, Sharon Busby, Spruce Root Basketry of the Haida and Tlingit, Lucia Marquand Books, →ISBN, page 109

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Forms of Haidah

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Questions about Haidah

What is Haidah the archaic form of?
Haidah is the archaic form of Haida.

Words near Haidah in the dictionary

  1. haick
  2. haicks
  3. haid
  4. Haida
  5. Haida Gwaii
  6. Haidah
  7. haidamak
  8. Haidan
  9. Haidao
  10. Haidar
  11. Haidarabad

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Haidah (page history and authors); Haida (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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