The bear moves like a silhouette across the landscape ... what the Gitga'at call mooksgm'ol, the spirit bear, a walking contradiction—a white black bear. Neither albino nor polar bear, the ...

A spirit bear has been spotted in Michigan for the first time. The one-in-a-million white-colored bear is considered a symbol of change for Indigenous peoples. Spirit bears are a type of black ...

Neasloss is the elected chief councillor of the Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation, and the co-author of a new study on the genome of the spirit bear, a.k.a. Kermode, a rare, white-furred variant of ...

It may look like a polar bear that has ventured too far south - but these once-in-a-lifetime photographs are of the extremely rare Spirit Bear. Once thought to exist only in Native American ...

cbc.ca #TheMoment B.C.'s elusive spirit bear emerged for a close-up photo shoot Posted: March 28, 2025 | Last updated: March 30, 2025 World-class wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen recounts the ...

A well-kept Upper Peninsula secret about white, “spirit” bears living in Michigan’s Northwoods has now become more widely known. An approximately 100-pound, white- and blonde-colored bear ...