The Haida language is spoken by only a few dozen speakers worldwide, the most fluent of these are all over 80 years old.
Each Haida speaker in SURVIVING SOUNDS OF HAIDA, a short documentary, comes from Kasaan-- the northernmost of the Haida villages in southeast Alaska, about 30 miles northwest of Ketchikan.
Several Haida elders speak words and phrases of this endangered language. Subjects range from boarding school days to foods to general conversation. At the end, we see Erma Lawrence, who is 95 and the most fluent from Kasaan, sing 'HOW GREAT THOU ART' in Haida.
For 8 minutes, Kasaan Haida elders offer their surviving sounds of Haida.
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