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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
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
Both
British
British Columbia
Coast
Coastal
Columbia
First
Hugging
Nations
Novelist
Reserves
Rugged
Shores
Small
West
West Coast
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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
Behind
Brooding
Chasing
Crows
Cruise
Eagle
Easy
Fishing
Himself
Hoping
Lines
Me
Meal
Nets
Out
Pine
Rain
Raven
Salmon
Tender
Tree
Waits
Water
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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
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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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
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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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
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 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
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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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
Breathing
Clothed
Culture
Entities
Fed
Land
Living
Nurtured
Ocean
Our
Supported
Time
Us
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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
About
Bay
British
British Columbia
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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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
~ Eden Robinson
Come
People
Spit
Support
Think
Where
Will
You
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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
Affect
Answerable
Careful
Communities
Decisions
Deliberate
Dictators
Discussions
Hereditary
Hold
Inhabit
Kings
Lengthy
Mistake
Negotiation
Our
Power
Require
Social
Systems
Think
Traditional
While
Would
Would-Be
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