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Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to just over 100 meters (330 ft) tall, [2] with a trunk diameter at breast height that can exceed 5 m (16 ft).
Kiidk'yaas in 1984. Kiidk'yaas (meaning "ancient tree" in the Haida language [1]), also known as the Golden Spruce, was a Sitka spruce tree (Picea sitchensis 'Aurea') that grew on the banks of the Yakoun River on the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia, Canada.
In January 1997, he felled Kiidk'yaas (also known as "the Golden Spruce"), a Sitka Spruce tree located on the Haida Gwaii archipelago and considered sacred by the Haida people. Hadwin stated that he cut the tree down as a protest against the logging industry. While facing criminal charges for the act, he disappeared en route to his trial. His ...
Anthropologist Robert Tonkinson described Mardu songlines in his 1978 monograph The Mardudjara Aborigines - Living The Dream In Australia's Desert.. Songlines Singing is an essential element in most Mardudjara ritual performances because the songline follows in most cases the direction of travel of the beings concerned and highlights cryptically their notable as well as mundane activities.
The San Juan Spruce is a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) tree located in the San Juan Valley of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Until July 2016 it was the second largest known Sitka spruce tree by volume, [ 2 ] surpassed only by the Queets Spruce in Washington , United States .
"From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water" (1909) is a popular song composed by Charles Wakefield Cadman. He based it on an Omaha love song collected by Alice C. Fletcher . "Sky-blue water" or "clear blue water" is one possible translation of " Mnisota ", the name for the Minnesota River in the Dakota language .
Sheet music sits on a mud-caked floor inside Majestic Music in downtown Spruce Pine, N.C. on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, days after Hurricane Helene brought heavy flooding to the area. Show comments ...
Sitka spruce: 1962 Animals. Type Symbol Year Image Bird: Willow ptarmigan: 1955 Dog: Alaskan Malamute: 2010 Fish: ... Song "Alaska's Flag" 1959 Sport: Dog sledding: 1972