• The Haida—A Unique People of the “Misty Isles”
    Awake!—1990 | May 22

    • However, in more recent years, the Haida have been blessed by the arrival on their shores of a different type of missionary​—Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their message has appealed to the good qualities of the Haida, and it gives them a real hope for the future. As these Christian missionaries continue to go from house to house throughout the islands, sometimes using fishing boats and bush planes to reach remote settlements from Cape St. James to Langara Island, they are overwhelmed by the relatively untouched beauty of the Queen Charlotte Islands and the warmth and kindness of the people.

      Like the explorers of two hundred years ago, Jehovah’s Witnesses have found true companions among the Haida, as they have diligently taken the good news of God’s established Kingdom to every home on the islands. And many Haida families have responded, recognizing the ring of truth contained in God’s Word, the Bible. By studying the Bible with Jehovah’s Witnesses, they have come to appreciate the true relationship between man and God, man and man, and man and animal.

      They have come to know the name of the “supreme being,” not merely as the “Power of the Shining Heavens,” but as Jehovah God. They have come to appreciate the brotherhood of mankind, that all men are equal before Jehovah through Christ Jesus. (Acts 10:34, 35) And yes, animals, birds, and fish are all souls, just as man is a soul. They do not possess immortal souls or the supernatural powers attributed to them by the ancient Haida storytellers.​—Leviticus 24:17, 18; Ecclesiastes 3:18-21; Ezekiel 18:4, 20.