Steilta Islets

Steilta Islets (53˚38'00" 132˚24'00" In Juskatla Inlet, S of Masset Inlet, Graham I, QCI). Steilta (also Stilta, Stelta or Stultah) was a famous Haida Eagle crest chief at Masset. He converted to Christianity just before his death in 1876 and was supposedly the first Haida chief to be interred rather than placed in a mortuary box and then lodged in a mortuary house or cave. Steilta may have been involved in the pillage and burning of the US schooner Susan Sturgis in 1852; his Masset house had...

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