The Great Bear Rainforest

Long ago, when the earth was blanketed with ice and snow, Raven the Creator decided that the land would be changed to a beautiful green.

Then Raven went among the black bears and decreed that every tenth bear would be born white, as a reminder of the time when the world was pure and clean and covered with glaciers and snowdrifts.

Raven promised that the white bears would forever live a life of peace and harmony in the ancient coastal rainforests.

Gitga’at First Nation legend