From the Poplars
Autor Cecily Nicholsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2014
In the North Arm of British Columbia’s Fraser River lies an uninhabited island. In the midst of major industry and shipping, it is central to the waterfront of British Columbia’s original capital of New Westminster passed by daily by thousands of SkyTrain commuters. Poplar Island is lush and unspoken, but storied. It is the traditional territory of the Qayqayt First Nation. Made into property, a parcel of land belonging to the “New Westminster and Brownsville Indians,” this is the location of one of British Columbia’s first “Indian Reserves.”
This is also a place where Indigenous smallpox victims from the south coast were forced into quarantine, substandard care and buried. As people were decimated the land was taken and exchanged between levels of government. The trees were clear-cut for industry, beginning with shipbuilding during the First World War. The island still serves as booming anchorage for local sawmills.
From the Poplars is the poetic outcome of archival research, and of listening to the land and the stories of a place. It is a meditation on an unmarked, twenty-seven and a half acres of land held as government property: a monument to colonial plunder on the waterfront of a city, like many cities, built upon erasures. From an emplaced poet and resident of New Westminster, this text contributes to present narratives on decolonization. It is an honouring of river and riparian density, and a witness to resilience, tempering a silence that inevitably will be heard.
demonstration parcels bought and sold repeatedly
as the record shows, stolen
quarantine and bury there the government
not taking graves into account
warships were built view down a launch ramp
Cecily Nicholson is a writer, curator, and community worker in the impoverished and inspiring Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
This is also a place where Indigenous smallpox victims from the south coast were forced into quarantine, substandard care and buried. As people were decimated the land was taken and exchanged between levels of government. The trees were clear-cut for industry, beginning with shipbuilding during the First World War. The island still serves as booming anchorage for local sawmills.
From the Poplars is the poetic outcome of archival research, and of listening to the land and the stories of a place. It is a meditation on an unmarked, twenty-seven and a half acres of land held as government property: a monument to colonial plunder on the waterfront of a city, like many cities, built upon erasures. From an emplaced poet and resident of New Westminster, this text contributes to present narratives on decolonization. It is an honouring of river and riparian density, and a witness to resilience, tempering a silence that inevitably will be heard.
demonstration parcels bought and sold repeatedly
as the record shows, stolen
quarantine and bury there the government
not taking graves into account
warships were built view down a launch ramp
Cecily Nicholson is a writer, curator, and community worker in the impoverished and inspiring Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780889228566
ISBN-10: 0889228566
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 132 x 218 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Talon Books
Colecția Talonbooks
Locul publicării:Canada
ISBN-10: 0889228566
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 132 x 218 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Talon Books
Colecția Talonbooks
Locul publicării:Canada
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Present in efforts of decolonization, reconciliation, and environmentalism, From the Poplars tempers a silence that inevitably will be broken.