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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: Bay Celebrate Dance Feast Fishing Gear Generation Great Lined Long Memories Named Next Once Passed Place Point Poles Reserve Sacred Season Song Stories Totem Village Winter

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A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: Actions Both Case Court Debate Examination Expensive Food Involve Legal Lengthy Much Other Participants Responsibilities Rights Rites Similar Singing Speeches Spiritual Vigorous

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I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: Both British Coast Coastal Columbia First Hugging Nations Novelist Reserves Rugged Shores Small West West Coast

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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: Affect Answerable Careful Communities Decisions Deliberate Dictators Discussions Hereditary Hold Inhabit Kings Lengthy Mistake Negotiation Our Power Require Social Systems Think Traditional While Would

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The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: Act Communities Economic Economic Policy Federal Financial First Governments Guide Insulted Integrity Nations Our People Policy Provincial Transparency Very Who

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The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: Breathing Clothed Culture Entities Fed Land Living Nurtured Ocean Our Supported Time Us

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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: Come People Spit Support Think Where Will You

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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: Amount Announcement Building Considerably Discovered Dock End Excitement In The End Initial Jobs Number Over People Permanent Pipeline Some Workers Would

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The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: About Bay British Children Coast Columbia End Go Go Home Government Home Hugs Hungry Main Miles Nation Nearby North Northwest Pick Point Ran Reserve South Vancouver Were

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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: Anchored Brought Discovery Eight Encounter Evening First June Known Large Natives People Published Salmon Ship Them Two Vancouver Visited Were Who Wrote

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: January 19th, 1968

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