We Were Here First - We Never Thought You (White People) Would Stay
. BIG NAMES. SRO EVENT. SPONSORED BY RBC TAYLOR PRIZE RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Spotlight: We Were Here First with Thomas King , Lee Maracle , Samual Watson and Waubgeshig Rice . "We weren't concerned because we never thought you (white people) would stay ..." laughed First Nation's author Lee Maracle at last night's RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Spotlight: We Were Here First. Well-known CBC Host (not that one - it was CBC videographer Waubgeshig Rice) had asked Maracle and three other celebrated indigenous writers from Canada and Australia to comment on the evening's theme - We Were Here First. The Friday evening book event was an integral part of the closing weekend of Harbourfront's International Festival of Authors. The festival, now in its 35th year, brings the world's biggest names in literature to a number of Harbourfront stages along Toronto's waterfront. The Friday night panel had two fa