Preserving the Endangered Haida Language in Songs

Haida Roots Cause is to bring healing joy, like a refreshing river, to our children through writing, speaking & singing in our precious, endangered Haida language. 

With your kind donation, we will accomplish these goals in 2026-27 together with our community:

1. Create language learning resources:

books, fluent speaker elders video.

2. Compose & record new Haida music: 

that will be featured on 2 new albums.

3. Teach weekly music classes for kids:

teaching very young children vocal warm-ups

and singing techniques, along with learning

our Haida vocables & language.

4. Travel to schools, events and programs: 

to teach and share our resources, stories & music.

Deliverables:

1. Multilingual Indigenous Music for Children’s album: 

New album recording session and album release event 

featuring 8 songs for children.

2. Haida Language Songbook 2: an audio book of old and

new Haida songs with interactive links to sing-a-long.

3. Khu.éex’ album: new album recording session & album

release for our Seattle based tribal funk band, Khu.éex'.

4. Fluent Speaker video: transcribed & translated video of

footage we captured of our mentor Jane Kristovich, a

fluent Haida birth-speaker. We were able to capture her

teachings before she passed away at the age of 94.

Háw'aa/Thank you for your love & support!