Yahgu'Laanaas Pole Raising and Potlatch

[@michaeldawson182]

Feel really lucky to have witnessed this pole being raised

[@heatherballantyne5609]

❤️ I hope to return one day. Such a powerful ceremony

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

I'm from this culture I lived here for my whole life, it's more like a ceremony at first then it becomes a celebration for the clan of the poles designs.

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

Sorry I wrote that wrong

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

It's more like a celebration than a ceremony first ita a ceremony then we just celebrate it could be one day and night or it could be two days of celebrating depends how the host ot hosts want the potlatch too be like

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

Its*

[@D3one]

Heck yeah xD Mo went hard in the dance!

[@joejoemcgee]

Love and respect from California

[@Foreverforests]

Does anyone know the significance of brushing the totem with branches or the rattles

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

I'm from this culture, I grew up here learning about this my whole life, so basically it takes off all the bad energy's and the bad thoughts that the carvers but in too it, but most of the time the carvers can't carve if they have bad energy's, hope this helped answer your question

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

They also did a thing called smudging the pole and the cedar branches and rattles also help get the bad energy's or bad spirits

[@totesmcpreesh7617]

Haw'aa!

[@paulinesena7173]

❤❤❤❤

[@alainrheault6579]

How the Potlach ceremony is made today by north western indian nations? I know this ceremony was an occasion to distributing rich gifts and giving a banquet to friendly tribes and giftings was made into regulated protocols.

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

I grew up here my whole life we aren't known as tribes or Indian nations

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

We are known as the haida nation

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

"North western Indian nation" or " tribes" would be kinda offensive to some of our people from the haida nations past. BTW I'm not just saying this as some white person I'm a haida person as well.

[@louiss1625]

Love

[@exposingbullies260]

Great video! Such a feeling of ancestral gathering this brings. Other than the Kwakiutl, which other tribes in the olden days of centuries long ago celebrated the Potlatch?

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

Skididate, old masset, bella bella, bella coola

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

We are not really known as tribes, we are known as nations

[@HaileyJones-y7f]

So in this video anyone from haida gwaii would be known as being apart of the haida nation