Skil Jaadee White is a member of the Yahgu Janaas Raven clan from Haida Gwaii. Raised in Old Massett, surrounded by Haida culture, she was drawn to expressing herself through visual arts and her ancestral language, X̱aad kil. She has also practiced traditional dancing and singing since she was a small girl.

The name Skil Jaadee belongs to the Yahgu ‘Laanas clan, where it’s been held by many women simultaneously since pre-contact. Living in a world where Indigenous peoples were forbidden from and punished for using traditional names, it’s a treasured responsibility to carry and normalize the names we have in our languages.