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Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.82,0:00:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the land we come from.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.38,0:00:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stolen, illegally occupied, abused.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.62,0:00:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But like our people? Alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.06,0:00:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over 500 years of attempted genocide,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.60,0:00:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our people have resisted.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.26,0:00:29.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have resisted assimilation,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.07,0:00:30.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have resisted colonialism.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.87,0:00:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Onkwehon:we, L'nu, Anishinaabe peoples, \Nas people of the earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.50,0:00:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our legacy is the land upon which we stand.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.18,0:00:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}Ron Tremblay{\i0} ] Our old stories say Noh-gelw-ska-po [{\b1}SP{\b0}] was the first man who came to this territory,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.94,0:00:52.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who was our, I guess pathfinder who got \Neverything ready for the two-leggeds to come here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.19,0:00:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was agreement with creation
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.68,0:01:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we as two-leggeds were gonna come here \Nand live within balance,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.78,0:01:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and within means with the four-legged, with the winged, \Nwith the crawlers, with the swimmers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.53,0:01:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We go back, as traditional people, thinkin'
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.13,0:01:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, this is our agreement, our treaty with creation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.06,0:01:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have we been following that treaty?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.49,0:01:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, no.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.91,0:01:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've, y'know, messed up.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.32,0:01:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}NARRATOR{\i0} ] Line 9 is owned and operated \Nby Enbridge Pipelines,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.16,0:01:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a major oil and gas corporation in Turtle Island.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.83,0:01:32.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This pipe is part of a larger system of pipelines
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.55,0:01:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting in the heart of the tar sands,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.54,0:01:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and occupied Cree and Chippewayan territory \Nin so-called "Alberta".
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.17,0:01:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enbridge has already begun reversing this pipeline,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.61,0:01:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,increasing its capacity in order to pump \N300,000 barrels of bitumen through it per day.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.30,0:01:49.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Line 9 starts in Anishinaabe territory in Aamjiwnaang,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.79,0:01:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and follows the north shore of \Nlakes Huron and Ontario,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.31,0:01:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also impacting neighbouring Métis nations,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.70,0:01:56.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and snaking up along the St. Lawrence river,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.74,0:02:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where it meets a refinement facility in occupied Haudenosaunee territory in so-called "Montreal".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.28,0:02:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Line 9 is coming through our territory, \Nit's coming through the Haldimand Tract,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.91,0:02:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is threatening our entire communities, \Nall of our people, and our lands.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.58,0:02:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's bringing the fight from the tar sands -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.73,0:02:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ground zero, one of the most destructive projects \Non the planet -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.78,0:02:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is bringing that destruction and what's going on there, to our lands and our territory.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.46,0:02:27.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}NARRATOR{\i0} ] But that isn't the only pipeline battle \Ncoming to a head.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.13,0:02:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trans Canada plans to reverse a 4,500 KM frack gas \Npipeline dubbed "The Energy East",
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.60,0:02:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and retrofit it to carry 1.1 million barrels \Nof diluted bitumen to the Irving Refinery
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.46,0:02:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on occupied Wolastoqiyik territory, \Nin so-called "New Brunswick".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.40,0:02:49.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From there, they plan to build a marine terminal \Nto ship the dilbit [{\b1}SP{\b0}] via supertankers,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.26,0:02:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,threatening the entire eastern seaboard.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.52,0:02:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Energy Beast pipeline requires construction \Nof new pipe nearly all along its path,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.27,0:03:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as the construction of \Nland and marine terminals, pumping stations,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.27,0:03:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for corporations like Suncor, Irving, and Enbridge \Nto increase their refining capacity.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.100,0:03:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}John Levi{\i0} ] This is where we belong, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.36,0:03:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you're gonna poison our waters,\Nwhere do we go, y'know? Where do we go?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.11,0:03:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we gotta protect it, we gotta keep it clean,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.33,0:03:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we gotta protect our waters, our hunting grounds,\Nour medicine grounds, y'know?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.64,0:03:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's no two ways about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.21,0:03:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This west to east pipeline
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.84,0:03:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is another... i think it's gonna be one of the worst
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.37,0:03:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that could possibly occur within our territories.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.78,0:03:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially if there's like spills.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.68,0:03:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was part of the prophesies about this \Ntwo-headed snake comin' from west to east;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.54,0:03:47.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and um we thought it was a physical snake.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.89,0:03:52.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well it is a physical snake, \Nit's that pipeline that's gonna be comin' across.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.86,0:03:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said we have to kill that snake.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.30,0:03:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}NARRATOR{\i0} ] From the point of extraction\Nto the point of refinement,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.38,0:04:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tar sands and their pipelines threaten \Nthe health of our territories,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.58,0:04:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including the lakes, the streams,\Nand the peoples that they feed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.15,0:04:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}Suzanne Patles{\i0} ] Frackin' is an issue in my territory \Nbecause it affects us because it destroys the water,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.65,0:04:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and water is the foundation of who we are as a people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.12,0:04:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without water, we're unable to be who we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.95,0:04:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're unable to practice our ceremonies.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.21,0:04:22.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're unable to fulfill our obligations as L'nu people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.92,0:04:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}NARRATOR{\i0} ] Resource extraction is the process\Nof erasing our relationship with our mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.32,0:04:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and commodifying her in the interests of capitalism.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.37,0:04:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must remember the impacts \Nof projects like the tar sands.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.51,0:04:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}Lionel Lepine{\i0} ] It affected us in various different ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.52,0:04:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,varying from social and economic impacts,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.36,0:04:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to environmental impacts,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.03,0:04:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ultimately, death.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.87,0:04:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}NARRATOR{\i0} ] Bitumen is a corrosive solid which has been primarily used as ashphalt.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.61,0:04:49.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To transfer bitumen through pipelines,\Nit must be diluted,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.57,0:04:54.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which requires the use of gas that comes from \Nthe process of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking".
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.87,0:04:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fracking takes the lifeblood of mother earth \N-- fresh water --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.19,0:05:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and desecrates it by adding chemicals and sand,\Ntargeting shale deposits,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.74,0:05:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and injecting this mixture deep into the belly of the earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.86,0:05:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at incredible speeds and pressures \Nto literally fracture our mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.40,0:05:12.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and cut her open to release the gas and petroleum \Nthat was stored there.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.31,0:05:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The natural destruction, it all has a consequence,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.75,0:05:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it impacts the people of the community.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.88,0:05:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It removes people from the natural cycles \Nof what they should be doing with the land,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.43,0:05:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how they should be treating the land,\Nhow they have to live with the land.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.13,0:05:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}Danielle Boisneau{\i0} ] When our land is destroyed,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.30,0:05:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's definitely a kind of genocide.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.82,0:05:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they know that, y'know?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.48,0:05:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why they want to destroy us,\Nbecause we have that connection.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.78,0:05:38.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But y'know, there's too many strong people,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.23,0:05:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and like people are awakening now,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.37,0:05:42.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're seeing that,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.51,0:05:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so they're just trying to destroy it faster and faster.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.67,0:05:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}Vanessa Gray{\i0} ] What I call this process
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.68,0:05:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with companies taking over land and resources,\Nis environmental racism,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.64,0:05:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this is not just happening in Aamjiwnaang [{\b1}SP{\b0}]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.01,0:06:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we... our health and our environment is affected\Nby these companies being so close to our houses.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.53,0:06:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is happening all over Canada,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.80,0:06:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it happens all over the world \Nwhere indigenous people are suffering
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.21,0:06:15.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of these companies selfishly \Nextracting resources for money.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.100,0:06:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}NARRATOR{\i0} ] This sickness of capitalism\Nand abuse of mother earth known as the tar sands
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.48,0:06:23.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is fueled by frack gas.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.39,0:06:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Resistance to all forms of resource extraction \Nand their infrastructure,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.68,0:06:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pipelines, pumping stations, seismic trucks, marine terminals, gas wells, and their corporate headquarters,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.84,0:06:34.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is necessary.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.49,0:06:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As indigenous peoples, \Nwe have a responsibility to our mother earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.85,0:06:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the faces not yet born,\Nand all members of creation,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.62,0:06:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ensure that the death machine of colonial capitalism\Nis abolished.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.86,0:06:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All over Turtle Island, our people are standing up,\Non our lands,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.47,0:06:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,refusing assimilation and asserting our inherent titles.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.56,0:06:58.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}Toghestiy{\i0} ] We are Wet'suwet'en people,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.59,0:07:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the territories that they're talking about \Nbelong to our people.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.18,0:07:02.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't belong to a tribal council,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.61,0:07:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they don't belong to bands.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.28,0:07:05.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't belong to industry,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.95,0:07:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they certainly don't belong to government.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.66,0:07:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If anybody wants to try and force pipeline \Nthrough our territories,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.93,0:07:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,theyre gonna meet resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.26,0:07:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if they wanna put contractors out here,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.30,0:07:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're gonna be puttin' contractors in harms way,\Nbecause we are gonna protect our lands.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.43,0:07:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}Suzanne Patles{\i0} ] It's important to stop these pipelines
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.60,0:07:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they're gonna destroy and deplete\Neverything that we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.52,0:07:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's eco-genocide.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.47,0:07:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's destroying us through destroying \Neverything that we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.38,0:07:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}Laura Norton{\i0} ] I think what you have to do \Nis you have to, um, you have to go home.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.30,0:07:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to really take time\Nto go sit outside,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.24,0:07:45.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lay down on your mother, \Nand she'll tell you what you have to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.06,0:07:48.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that the nation to nation relationship,\Nwhen it's decolonized,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.97,0:07:51.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then that's when we're really gonna see an uprising.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.59,0:07:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when we're really gonna be bound together
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.51,0:07:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by things other than physical.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.60,0:07:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y'know, when we have that \Nspiritual connection with each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.72,0:08:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, that's some really strong shit.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.52,0:08:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}Vanessa Gray{\i0} ] What needs to happen is direct action.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.32,0:08:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think people need to physically get out there and show their support for the earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.88,0:08:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not the tar sands destruction, or the pipelines destruction, or the government.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.55,0:08:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tried protesting,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.20,0:08:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,y'know, we tried, uh, y'know, marching around,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.15,0:08:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dancing around malls here and there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.20,0:08:23.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y'know, we tried court, we tried y'know legal ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.11,0:08:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y'know, strong, hardcore direct action \Nis the only way to stop these guys.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.78,0:08:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're resisting colonialism,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.68,0:08:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're trying to bring back who we are\Nas indigenous people,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.28,0:08:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's important to assert your rights,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.58,0:08:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's important to assert your inherent authority,\Nand assert your title over the land,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.14,0:08:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because non-assertion equals extinguishment,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.90,0:08:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we do not assert who we are as a people,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.86,0:08:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we are exterminating who we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.85,0:08:50.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}NARRATOR{\i0} ] We are caretakers, we are warriors,\Nwe are people of the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.87,0:09:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Captions created on un-ceded Coast Salish Territories,\Nby the Radical Access Mapping Project, 2013