0:00:12.823,0:00:14.378 This is the land we come from. 0:00:14.378,0:00:18.216 Stolen, illegally occupied, abused. 0:00:20.619,0:00:23.059 But like our people? Alive. 0:00:23.059,0:00:25.596 Over 500 years of attempted genocide, 0:00:25.596,0:00:27.256 our people have resisted. 0:00:27.256,0:00:29.072 We have resisted assimilation, 0:00:29.072,0:00:30.870 we have resisted colonialism. 0:00:30.870,0:00:35.498 As Onkwehon:we, L'nu, Anishinaabe peoples, [br]as people of the earth, 0:00:35.498,0:00:38.530 our legacy is the land upon which we stand. 0:00:39.179,0:00:44.066 [ Ron Tremblay ] Our old stories say Noh-gelw-ska-po [SP] was the first man who came to this territory, 0:00:45.942,0:00:52.658 and who was our, I guess pathfinder who got [br]everything ready for the two-leggeds to come here. 0:00:53.188,0:00:56.680 There was agreement with creation 0:00:56.680,0:01:02.785 that we as two-leggeds were gonna come here [br]and live within balance, 0:01:02.785,0:01:08.534 and within means with the four-legged, with the winged, [br]with the crawlers, with the swimmers. 0:01:08.534,0:01:11.134 We go back, as traditional people, thinkin' 0:01:11.134,0:01:17.060 well, this is our agreement, our treaty with creation. 0:01:17.060,0:01:19.486 Have we been following that treaty? 0:01:19.486,0:01:20.908 Well, no. 0:01:20.908,0:01:24.074 We've, y'know, messed up. 0:01:24.316,0:01:27.155 [ NARRATOR ] Line 9 is owned and operated [br]by Enbridge Pipelines, 0:01:27.155,0:01:30.830 a major oil and gas corporation in Turtle Island. 0:01:30.830,0:01:32.547 This pipe is part of a larger system of pipelines 0:01:32.547,0:01:34.545 starting in the heart of the tar sands, 0:01:34.545,0:01:38.167 and occupied Cree and Chippewayan territory [br]in so-called "Alberta". 0:01:38.167,0:01:40.613 Enbridge has already begun reversing this pipeline, 0:01:40.613,0:01:46.304 increasing its capacity in order to pump [br]300,000 barrels of bitumen through it per day. 0:01:46.304,0:01:49.786 Line 9 starts in Anishinaabe territory in Aamjiwnaang, 0:01:49.786,0:01:52.313 and follows the north shore of [br]lakes Huron and Ontario, 0:01:52.313,0:01:54.699 also impacting neighbouring Métis nations, 0:01:54.699,0:01:56.745 and snaking up along the St. Lawrence river, 0:01:56.745,0:02:01.589 where it meets a refinement facility in occupied Haudenosaunee territory in so-called "Montreal". 0:02:02.281,0:02:04.775 Line 9 is coming through our territory, [br]it's coming through the Haldimand Tract, 0:02:06.907,0:02:10.580 and it is threatening our entire communities, [br]all of our people, and our lands. 0:02:10.580,0:02:13.734 And it's bringing the fight from the tar sands - 0:02:13.734,0:02:18.784 ground zero, one of the most destructive projects [br]on the planet - 0:02:18.784,0:02:23.595 it is bringing that destruction and what's going on there, to our lands and our territory. 0:02:24.456,0:02:27.129 [ NARRATOR ] But that isn't the only pipeline battle [br]coming to a head. 0:02:27.129,0:02:33.602 Trans Canada plans to reverse a 4,500 KM frack gas [br]pipeline dubbed "The Energy East", 0:02:33.602,0:02:39.459 and retrofit it to carry 1.1 million barrels [br]of diluted bitumen to the Irving Refinery 0:02:39.459,0:02:44.396 on occupied Wolastoqiyik territory, [br]in so-called "New Brunswick". 0:02:44.396,0:02:49.262 From there, they plan to build a marine terminal [br]to ship the dilbit [SP] via supertankers, 0:02:49.262,0:02:51.518 threatening the entire eastern seaboard. 0:02:51.518,0:02:56.266 The Energy Beast pipeline requires construction [br]of new pipe nearly all along its path, 0:02:56.266,0:03:00.268 as well as the construction of [br]land and marine terminals, pumping stations, 0:03:00.268,0:03:06.852 and for corporations like Suncor, Irving, and Enbridge [br]to increase their refining capacity. 0:03:07.997,0:03:09.940 [ John Levi ] This is where we belong, you know? 0:03:11.363,0:03:16.112 And if you're gonna poison our waters,[br]where do we go, y'know? Where do we go? 0:03:16.112,0:03:18.327 So we gotta protect it, we gotta keep it clean, 0:03:18.327,0:03:22.641 we gotta protect our waters, our hunting grounds,[br]our medicine grounds, y'know? 0:03:22.641,0:03:26.206 And there's no two ways about it. 0:03:26.206,0:03:27.838 This west to east pipeline 0:03:27.838,0:03:30.835 is another... i think it's gonna be one of the worst 0:03:33.374,0:03:36.778 things that could possibly occur within our territories. 0:03:36.778,0:03:38.679 Especially if there's like spills. 0:03:38.679,0:03:44.537 There was part of the prophesies about this [br]two-headed snake comin' from west to east; 0:03:44.537,0:03:47.893 and um we thought it was a physical snake. 0:03:47.893,0:03:52.864 Well it is a physical snake, [br]it's that pipeline that's gonna be comin' across. 0:03:52.864,0:03:55.119 And I said we have to kill that snake. 0:03:55.305,0:03:58.378 [ NARRATOR ] From the point of extraction[br]to the point of refinement, 0:03:58.378,0:04:01.582 the tar sands and their pipelines threaten [br]the health of our territories, 0:04:01.582,0:04:04.670 including the lakes, the streams,[br]and the peoples that they feed. 0:04:05.147,0:04:10.646 [ Suzanne Patles ] Frackin' is an issue in my territory [br]because it affects us because it destroys the water, 0:04:10.646,0:04:14.123 and water is the foundation of who we are as a people. 0:04:14.123,0:04:16.954 Without water, we're unable to be who we are. 0:04:16.954,0:04:19.211 We're unable to practice our ceremonies. 0:04:19.211,0:04:22.922 We're unable to fulfill our obligations as L'nu people. 0:04:22.922,0:04:27.317 [ NARRATOR ] Resource extraction is the process[br]of erasing our relationship with our mother, 0:04:27.317,0:04:30.371 and commodifying her in the interests of capitalism. 0:04:30.371,0:04:33.338 We must remember the impacts [br]of projects like the tar sands. 0:04:33.508,0:04:36.520 [ Lionel Lepine ] It affected us in various different ways, 0:04:36.520,0:04:39.356 varying from social and economic impacts, 0:04:39.356,0:04:41.033 to environmental impacts, 0:04:41.033,0:04:42.470 and ultimately, death. 0:04:42.870,0:04:46.613 [ NARRATOR ] Bitumen is a corrosive solid which has been primarily used as ashphalt. 0:04:46.613,0:04:49.567 To transfer bitumen through pipelines,[br]it must be diluted, 0:04:49.567,0:04:54.868 which requires the use of gas that comes from [br]the process of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking". 0:04:54.868,0:04:58.194 Fracking takes the lifeblood of mother earth [br]-- fresh water -- 0:04:58.194,0:05:01.739 and desecrates it by adding chemicals and sand,[br]targeting shale deposits, 0:05:01.739,0:05:04.856 and injecting this mixture deep into the belly of the earth, 0:05:04.856,0:05:08.400 at incredible speeds and pressures [br]to literally fracture our mother, 0:05:08.400,0:05:12.843 and cut her open to release the gas and petroleum [br]that was stored there. 0:05:13.307,0:05:16.750 The natural destruction, it all has a consequence, 0:05:16.750,0:05:18.877 and it impacts the people of the community. 0:05:18.877,0:05:22.434 It removes people from the natural cycles [br]of what they should be doing with the land, 0:05:22.434,0:05:25.240 and how they should be treating the land,[br]how they have to live with the land. 0:05:26.126,0:05:28.297 [ Danielle Boisneau ] When our land is destroyed, 0:05:28.297,0:05:29.866 it's definitely a kind of genocide. 0:05:31.818,0:05:33.481 And they know that, y'know? 0:05:33.481,0:05:36.777 That's why they want to destroy us,[br]because we have that connection. 0:05:36.777,0:05:38.227 But y'know, there's too many strong people, 0:05:38.227,0:05:40.370 and like people are awakening now, 0:05:40.370,0:05:42.508 and they're seeing that, 0:05:42.508,0:05:45.158 and so they're just trying to destroy it faster and faster. 0:05:45.673,0:05:48.680 [ Vanessa Gray ] What I call this process 0:05:48.680,0:05:54.643 with companies taking over land and resources,[br]is environmental racism, 0:05:54.643,0:05:58.010 because this is not just happening in Aamjiwnaang [SP] 0:05:58.010,0:06:03.526 where we... our health and our environment is affected[br]by these companies being so close to our houses. 0:06:03.526,0:06:05.805 It is happening all over Canada, 0:06:05.805,0:06:10.212 it happens all over the world [br]where indigenous people are suffering 0:06:10.212,0:06:15.729 because of these companies selfishly [br]extracting resources for money. 0:06:16.996,0:06:21.476 [ NARRATOR ] This sickness of capitalism[br]and abuse of mother earth known as the tar sands 0:06:21.476,0:06:23.394 is fueled by frack gas. 0:06:23.394,0:06:26.675 Resistance to all forms of resource extraction [br]and their infrastructure, 0:06:26.675,0:06:32.844 pipelines, pumping stations, seismic trucks, marine terminals, gas wells, and their corporate headquarters, 0:06:32.844,0:06:34.492 is necessary. 0:06:34.492,0:06:37.847 As indigenous peoples, [br]we have a responsibility to our mother earth, 0:06:37.847,0:06:41.623 to the faces not yet born,[br]and all members of creation, 0:06:41.623,0:06:46.258 to ensure that the death machine of colonial capitalism[br]is abolished. 0:06:48.864,0:06:52.474 All over Turtle Island, our people are standing up,[br]on our lands, 0:06:52.474,0:06:56.082 refusing assimilation and asserting our inherent titles. 0:06:56.556,0:06:58.593 [ Toghestiy ] We are Wet'suwet'en people, 0:06:58.593,0:07:01.177 and the territories that they're talking about [br]belong to our people. 0:07:01.177,0:07:02.614 They don't belong to a tribal council, 0:07:02.614,0:07:04.284 they don't belong to bands. 0:07:04.284,0:07:05.951 They don't belong to industry, 0:07:05.951,0:07:07.663 and they certainly don't belong to government. 0:07:07.663,0:07:10.931 If anybody wants to try and force pipeline [br]through our territories, 0:07:10.931,0:07:13.264 theyre gonna meet resistance. 0:07:13.264,0:07:15.304 And if they wanna put contractors out here, 0:07:15.304,0:07:19.090 they're gonna be puttin' contractors in harms way,[br]because we are gonna protect our lands. 0:07:19.430,0:07:21.600 [ Suzanne Patles ] It's important to stop these pipelines 0:07:21.600,0:07:24.518 because they're gonna destroy and deplete[br]everything that we are. 0:07:24.518,0:07:26.474 It's eco-genocide. 0:07:26.474,0:07:30.610 It's destroying us through destroying [br]everything that we have. 0:07:33.379,0:07:36.299 [ Laura Norton ] I think what you have to do [br]is you have to, um, you have to go home. 0:07:36.299,0:07:41.241 You have to really take time[br]to go sit outside, 0:07:41.241,0:07:45.506 and lay down on your mother, [br]and she'll tell you what you have to do. 0:07:46.056,0:07:48.966 I think that the nation to nation relationship,[br]when it's decolonized, 0:07:48.966,0:07:51.592 then that's when we're really gonna see an uprising. 0:07:51.592,0:07:54.508 That's when we're really gonna be bound together 0:07:54.508,0:07:56.604 by things other than physical. 0:07:56.604,0:07:58.719 Y'know, when we have that [br]spiritual connection with each other, 0:07:58.719,0:08:00.767 like, that's some really strong shit. 0:08:01.520,0:08:03.325 [ Vanessa Gray ] What needs to happen is direct action. 0:08:03.325,0:08:08.879 I think people need to physically get out there and show their support for the earth, 0:08:08.879,0:08:14.323 and not the tar sands destruction, or the pipelines destruction, or the government. 0:08:14.554,0:08:16.195 We tried protesting, 0:08:16.195,0:08:18.153 y'know, we tried, uh, y'know, marching around, 0:08:18.153,0:08:20.204 dancing around malls here and there. 0:08:20.204,0:08:23.106 Y'know, we tried court, we tried y'know legal ways. 0:08:23.106,0:08:27.785 Y'know, strong, hardcore direct action [br]is the only way to stop these guys. 0:08:27.785,0:08:29.676 We're resisting colonialism, 0:08:29.676,0:08:32.277 we're trying to bring back who we are[br]as indigenous people, 0:08:32.277,0:08:34.580 and it's important to assert your rights, 0:08:34.580,0:08:39.144 and it's important to assert your inherent authority,[br]and assert your title over the land, 0:08:39.144,0:08:41.897 because non-assertion equals extinguishment, 0:08:41.897,0:08:43.856 and if we do not assert who we are as a people, 0:08:43.856,0:08:46.077 then we are exterminating who we are. 0:08:46.846,0:08:50.999 [ NARRATOR ] We are caretakers, we are warriors,[br]we are people of the earth. 0:09:41.866,0:09:44.000 Captions created on un-ceded Coast Salish Territories,[br]by the Radical Access Mapping Project, 2013