Originally appeared on Automoblog.net

Haida Gwai (Islands of the people) are formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, and formerly known as Xaadala Gwayee (islands at the boundary of the world). Looking west, it is literally the end of the world, with the Pacific Ocean forming the boundary to over 150 islands. Some of the Haida people live there as they have for thousands of years. Others live on islands in Southern Alaska and on the mainland.

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Eight of us, city dwellers, are on the main island for a weekend of R&R. One day will be spent fishing and one will be spent driving our dune buggies on the beautiful northwest beaches of Graham Island. We will be heading toward Rose Point, looking for elusive, wild cattle. Since the early 20th century, generations of the same family have been raising cattle near Tlell, forty miles south of Masset. The cattle were not a native species, but introduced like raccoon and rats. The cattle are not fenced in and you can see them near the main road.
The grass may have been greener on the other side of the highway, perhaps because it was a federal park. So, over the years, some of them would just take off, the story goes, and become feral. Not that they were pets to begin with. They would make their way up north where there were no humans.
We wanted to see for ourselves if the myth was true.
Photo: Guy Kimola
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