The formal name is Kermode bear. Locals call them ghost, or spirit, bears, and some believe they’re sacred or supernatural creatures. There is science, not just folklore, behind several of the ...
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 ...