01.01.1970 - 01.01.1970
Native Spirit Foundation — Haida film: SGaawaay Ḵ’uuna (Edge of the Knife)
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Film screening following annual Leeds University Endangered
Languages workshop 'Endangered languages and ecosystems:
Threats and opportunities' Edge of the Knife is a 2018
Canadian drama film co-directed by Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen
Haig-Brown. It is the first feature film spoken only in
dialects of the Haida language. Set in 19th-century Haida
Gwaii, it tells the classic Haida story of the traumatized
and stranded man transformed to Gaagiixiid, the wildman.