Western science by definition rejects a literal interpretation of origin myths that root the Haida, for example, to Haida Gwaii. But that rejection does nothing to quell the spirit of the Haida or to persuade my friend Guujaaw, head of the Council for the Haida Nation, that his people have not occupied the archipelago since human beings emerged from the clamshell and Raven slipped out of the ether to steal the sun.
