Haida

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Haida may refer to:

• the Haida people, an indigenous ethnic group of North America
  • Council of the Haida Nation, their collective government body
  • Haida language, their language
  • Haida argillite carvings, an artform that is a Haida specialty
• Haida manga, a hybrid art form combining traditional Haida art and Japanese manga
• Hainan University, a public university in Hainan and the only "211" institution on the island.

Places

• Haida, an old name for Nový Bor
• Haida Gwaii, meaning "Islands of the Haida", formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands
• Haida Islands, a different archipelago near Bella Bella, British Columbia

Ships

• USCGC Haida (WPG-45), United States Coast Guard pod in commission from 1921–1947
• HMCS Haida (G63), Canadian Tribal-class destroyer that served from 1943–1963
• USS Argus (PY-14), a yacht launched in 1929 as the German naval vessel Haida, in service today as Haida G

Other uses

• Mahjoub Haïda (born 1970), Moroccan middle distance train
• Lasionycta haida, a moth of the Noctuidae family
• Nebria haida, a beetle of the Carabidae family

See also

• Nový Bor, a town in the Czech Republic, called Haida in German
• Hai-Da, abbreviation for Hainan University, from the Chinese Hainan Daxue
• Hada (disambiguation)
• Hadda (disambiguation)