Deep Roots - Toba: the Hearthome
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Toba Inlet is the glacier blue artery punching into the heart of the Toba River Valley and its mountainous flanks to access the mainland body of Klahoose traditional territory.
An entity in and of itself, Toba resources were, and continue to be, vital to Klahoose survival, culture and economic well-being.
The notion place can have affect on those that reside there is ancient and widespread in human history.
The Toba has shaped and has been shaped by the Klahoose, and the settlers, homesteaders and loggers who followed.
The story of Toba: The Heart Home is how living in his people’s traditional territory profoundly shaped a young boy. And, how that experience built a foundation of resilience, and forged an inspirational bond with an ancestor, both of which he’d draw upon to surmount challenges later in life.