Tyler York

{{Short description|Canadian Haida woodcarver and actor}}

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Tyler York ({{lang|hai|StllnG̲a}}){{cite news |url=http://www.haidanation.ca/?p=6507 |title=It's more than just Basketball |publisher=Council of the Haida Nation |date=February 2, 2018 |accessdate=April 28, 2019 }} is a Haida woodcarver and actor from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada.{{cite news |url=https://www.thenorthernview.com/news/work-underway-to-raise-first-totem-pole-in-gwaii-haanas-in-more-than-a-century/ |title=Work underway to raise first totem pole in Gwaii Haanas in more than a century |author=Shaun Thomas |work=The Northern View |date=November 15, 2012 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.haidanation.ca/?p=5835 |title=To lay the copper on the floor |publisher=Council of the Haida Nation |date=November 1, 2017 |accessdate=April 28, 2019 }} He is most noted for his performance in the Haida-language film Edge of the Knife ({{lang|hai|SG̲aawaay Ḵʹuuna}}), for which he won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2018.{{cite news |url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/01/08/vancouver-film-critics-circle-awards-haida-language-edge-of-the-knife/ |title=Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards Haida-language Edge of the Knife |work=CityNews |date=January 8, 2019 }}

As a carver, York was an apprentice under Jaalen Edenshaw, working together on a totem pole for the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site — first new totem pole to be erected in the park in over a century.

York also plays basketball, where he is a "crowd favorite and fierce competitor".

For the film Edge of the Knife, he and the rest of the cast learned the Haida language, in a 2-week training camp and throughout the 5 weeks of filming.{{cite web |url=http://www.haidanation.ca/?p=5298 |title="Breath is where it all starts" |author=Graham Richard |date=July 7, 2017 |publisher=Council of the Haida Nation |accessdate=11 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513011722/http://www.haidanation.ca/?p=5298 |archive-date=13 May 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.haidanation.ca/?p=4951 |title=Edge of the Knife: Three to the power of all |date=2 May 2017 |publisher=Council of the Haida Nation |accessdate=11 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513011704/http://www.haidanation.ca/?p=4951 |archive-date=13 May 2018 |url-status=live}}