Haida Gwaii Mod (This round of beta closed)

[HoneyBadger]

Ok, it's really hard to track much down, but then the subject deserves a devotion of time that I don't currently have. I'll add to this as I find the time, but in the meantime,

Some additional thoughts:

I can't find any direct references to the snapping turtle in Haida culture so far, but I know it features in many Aboriginal American myths.

The mountain goat was a very important animal to the Haida, and maybe that would make a good additional recruitable sacred animal.

The salmon was also very important to the Haida as was the frog and the fox, and probably the porcupine.

The Haida carved and smoked pipes. The smoke and the pipes themselves, they believed, had supernatural power, connecting the Haida to their ancestors and aiding their ancestors to find their way in the Afterlife.

The Haida and the Tlinglit seem to have been the most closely related, but the How Raven Stole the Sun is a myth that occurs all throughout Canada and Alaska.

There is some evidence that the Haida had contact with China circa 1000 bce or more recently-including the use of similar armor by the Haida and the Chinese at this time.

The Haida used and traded copper, including copper shields-these shields may have been purely or primarily symbolic though, as signs of wealth and tools of barter.

You have shamanistic units, but no overall Haida Chieftain (perhaps "Tyee" means chief?). The Haida Chief used a symbolic carved raven rattle during ceremonies. The Haida Chief also owned and used the most copper items-possibly copper weapons and armor, had a distinctive cloak and head-dress, and would be another candidate for the sailing/banner abilities.

The Haida had secret societies whos members were supposedly possessed by spirits and then exorcised during their initiation. They learned of these secret societies from captured Kwakwaka'wakw, their neighbors to the south

A weapon used by the Haida during river and sea battles against others in canoes was a large carved stone ring attached to a woven rope that they would hurl against and into the other canoe.

Are you intending the Haida more to be representative of all Canadian tribes? or just specifically Haida? The first option provides more opportunities for "legitimate" modding and allows for the fact that the Haida were widespread traders.