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Eden Robinson
Eden Robinson
Canadian Novelist
Born: Jan 19, 1968
Brought Building Decisions First People Think
Related authors: Claire Cameron David Bergen Joy Fielding Margaret Atwood Mordecai Richler Robertson Davies Ruth Ozeki
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
Time Culture Ocean Living Our Nurtured Immemorial Entities Fed Supported Clothed Land Breathing Us
In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon. Eden Robinson
Me Rain Water Chasing Meal Tree Out Brooding Easy Hoping Nets Tender Crows Raven Cruise Himself Fishing Lines Pine Waits Salmon Behind Seals Eagle Bellies
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
Food Spiritual Rights Legal Debate Singing Other Responsibilities Examination Case Similar Both Rites Participants Involve Court Expensive Lengthy Much Vigorous Actions Speeches
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
Great Memories Winter Celebrate Generation Song Dance Long Once Bay Gear Totem Feast Point Sacred Named Poles Passed Fishing Lined Stories Place Next Village Reserve Season
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
Mistake Power Think Our Negotiation Systems Would Would-Be Kings Deliberate Answerable Traditional Affect Dictators Chiefs Discussions Hold While Decisions Lengthy Social Apex Inhabit Require Communities Hereditary Careful
Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge. Eden Robinson
You People Will Think Spit Support Come Where
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
Government Home Nation Ran Hungry Bay Vancouver About Point Main Pick Columbia Go Were Go Home South End North HUGS Northwest Children Miles Coast Reserve Nearby British British Columbia
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
People First Anchored Visited Vancouver Brought Wrote Known Were Encounter Discovery Ship Salmon June Eight Natives Them Who Large Evening Published Two

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