Makai Point

Makai Point (53˚40'30" 132˚21'00" W entrance to Juskatla Inlet, S of Masset Inlet, Graham I, QCI). Makai was a Tlingit First Nation chief who had been captured and adopted by the Haida at Masset. He was known for his violent temper—especially while drinking and gambling. In his 1916 memoir In the Wake of the War Canoe, Anglican missionary William Collison describes how he was able to convert Makai to Christianity in the 1870s after successfully treating him for a burst blood vessel. The...

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