This Place Is Who We Are
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This Place Is Who We Are

Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

This Place Is Who We Are

Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands

About this book

This Place Is Who We Are profiles Indigenous communities in central and northern coastal BC that are reconnecting to their lands and waters—and growing and thriving through this reconnection.


Indigenous peoples and cultures are integrally connected to the land. Well-being in every sense—physical, social, environmental, economic, spiritual and cultural—depends on that relationship, which is based on a fundamental concept: when the land is well, so are the people.


With increasing strength, Indigenous peoples in this vast region of BC—which spans the homelands of more than two dozen First Nations and one of the largest remaining coastal temperate rainforests in the world—are restoring what has been lost through environmental depredation and healing what has been devastated by colonization.


This volume is a collection of ten of these inspiring stories. X̱aayda voices explain how their Rediscovery camps are healing and empowering their youth; Dzawada̱’enuxw Hereditary Chief Maxwiyalidizi K’odi Nelson shares the story of building a healing centre and ecolodge; Wei Wai Kum Chief Christopher Roberts describes the challenges and opportunities for an urban First Nation looking to prosper while protecting the environment and ancient Ligʷiłdaxʷ history and living cultural values; and many more Indigenous leaders share their own experiences of growth, strength and reconnection.


Thoughtful and inspiring, This Place Is Who We Are illustrates what can be accomplished when conservation and stewardship are inextricably intertwined with the prosperity and well-being of communities.

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Epigraph
  7. A Unique and Wondrous Place
  8. Place Names and Frequently Used Terms
  9. Foreword: We Have Always Been Here
  10. Introduction: This Place Is Who We Are
  11. Chapter One: Stl’mstaliwa—The Whole Human Experience
  12. Chapter Two: The Sacred Connection
  13. Chapter Three: The Work of Tx̱eemsim
  14. Chapter Four: Haíɫzaqv Unfettered
  15. Chapter Five: Our Homelands Build Us Up and Make Us Strong
  16. Chapter Six: A LigÊ·iƂdaxÊ· Bottom Line
  17. Chapter Seven: A Different Life
  18. Chapter Eight: A Voice for the Bears
  19. Chapter Nine: The Children Are Our Reason for Breathing
  20. Chapter Ten: Gugwilx’ya’ansk—We Are Living It
  21. Conclusion: For the Generations Yet Unborn
  22. Timeline
  23. Endnotes
  24. To Learn More: Resources
  25. Acknowledgements
  26. Photography Credits
  27. Index
  28. About the Author