This bear isn't what he's looking for. He's after a more revered and rare creature: what the Gitga'at call mooksgm'ol, the spirit bear, a walking contradiction—a white black bear. Neither albino ...

As the website of Spirit Bear Lodge, a Kitasoo/Xai’xais-run ecotourism operator, explains, “The creator Raven wanted to remind the Kitasoo Xai'xais Peoples of a time when this land was covered ...