2026-03-28
22 分钟This is Planet Money from NPR.
A few weeks ago, reporter Alex Mayasi and I headed to Canada to meet a leader of a small nation.
There's dinner.
The geese?
That's dark meat, man.
This is Gilbert Jacob.
Everyone calls him Chief Gibby.
He used to be one of the leaders of the Squamish Nation,
a nation of around 5,000 indigenous people living in the Pacific Northwest.
We met him in this charming little neighborhood full of single-family homes.
There was a big open park nearby.
Now, the land that we were standing on used to be a Squamish village.
It was called Sinak.
Chief Gibby's ancestors once lived here back in the 1800s.
This was one of the most bountiful areas in all of the coast.
We had elk, we had moose, we had killer whales, we had seals, sea lions, we had catch lots of different fish out here.
And then what happened?
Then the white people came.
Government officials from British Columbia in 1913 came and took the land.
They forced the Squamish to leave and destroyed the village.