Ninstints

Ninstints, or SG̱ang Gwaay Llnagaay, is an ancient Haida village site on Anthony Island at the southern end of Haida Gwaii, within Gwaii Haanas and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Canadian National Historic Site. Associated with the Kunghit Haida, the village dates to at least 360 CE in an archipelago inhabited for at least 10,000 years. It is renowned for the largest collection of Haida mortuary and memorial poles still standing in their original locations. After maritime fur trade contact and devastating introduced diseases, especially the 1862 smallpox epidemic, the village declined; by 1878 residents had moved to Skidegate.