chief of Ninstints or Skungwai, the main village of the Kunghit-Haida
1740 CE
to 1795 CE
Koyah, also Coya, Coyour, Kower, Kouyer (Haida: Xhuuyaa - "Raven" (b.?-d. c.1795), is the chief of Ninstints or Skungwai, the main village of the Kunghit-Haida during the era of the Maritime Fur Trade in the Haida Gwaii of the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Koyah is involved in more conflicts with ship captains than any other chief of his period and so figures prominently in histories of the fur trade and coastal exploration