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suspenseful music
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We're just doing some surveying
at two creeks here
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I was told to give you a card
If you guys show up
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Coastal Gaslink, TransCanada
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You know you guys don't have permission
be here right?
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I'm not aware of anything.
I'm just here as safety.
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This is traditional... Unist'ot'en territory
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If you would like us to leave,
we'll leave.
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You know TransCanada has already
been warned right?
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Equipment will be confiscated if
you guys return.
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singing
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The pipelines are going to go right
through where the salmon spawn
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And that's where we decided to put the
action camp.
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Last year we put a cabin right smack in
the way of the pipeline so that
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they would not go through
and we just recently
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last year we fenced it off because we
saw ribbons in there for drill pads
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for them to do test drills so they could
drill a pipe right under the river
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We've been hearing all the media
of all these pipes breaking
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and waterways getting damaged
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and we're just not going to
accept that risk
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cause we don't want to be 25 years
10 years down the road telling our kids
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oh we used to hunt moose here
and we used to fish.
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We've never ceded or surrendered our land
to anybody here.
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There's no treaty.
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There's no relationship built with
any government in the past.
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None of our people signed anything
to let them make decisions on our territory
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Heavy trucks rolling by
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Tomorrow morning at 3, we may see some
trucks attempting to get through
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to log the right of way. And we're
going to have to differentiate them.
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So we're going to go through all
the peaceful avenues we can
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But the way of the warrior is you go
through and expend all peaceful
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avenues first. And when all those fail,
it's war.
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And that is the way of the warrior.
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Drums
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Singing
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All this food in front of me.
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Wooden spoon tapping on a bowl
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We're worried we put this cabin right in
route of the PTP and Enbridge pipeline
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The GPS route, that's where this cabin
sits now and they have now since
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moved it upstream about 5 kilometers?
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It's a half a kilometer to two kilometers
away.
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By way of them actually mending their project
and changing the location of their crossing
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We decided to start building more infrastructure
in their way again.
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So we did a call for people come out and
assist us in the construction of a pit house
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And a pit house went directly in the path
of the Pacific Trails Pipeline
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deliberately because the Pacific Trails was
farther along than the rest of the pipelines
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In their permitting processes.
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Chainsaw
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This is the blockader's dream!
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Those have been doing this for awhile,
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Yeah some people build platforms,
and sleeping dragons.
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I built a whole fuckin hah ha ha
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I built a blockade!!!
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It's not just a blockade.
It's also a real dwelling.
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This is a part of the decolonization
and returning to the land
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and returning to the old ways
that ... talk about all the time.
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But you still have to nail something
to hold that together right?
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laughing
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We've been living here for two years
and we've already been brought up culturally
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... and I are both culturally brought up
and we are living culturally now
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We get all our own meats and gather our
own berries, and make sure we put away
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enough food to last us the whole winter
and this year I put away 100 fish
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So I jarred all that salmon
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We've got sweet potato, moose head-cheese
ribs, deer meat, some goat meat,
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a lot of salmon, some groundhog,
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Berries that we got last season.
Huckleberries, a lot of jams
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This all is in case they do block us
because there have been threats
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that they will block us from the other end
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That's why we're preparing food.
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We have food cached all over the territory
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Our people have had enough and we're
not just going to stand here and
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take the bullying and take it
without a fight.
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We've had enough of these spoiled brats
stealing off our lands and
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not accepting no for an answer and
we're gonna be the stern parent and
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Say no, you're not coming in.
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moose call
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Could be TransCanada cause they're the ones
that didn't submit their route through here yet
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But I know Enbridge has wanted to come in here
Pacific Trails is on this side.
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We didn't know where TransCanada wanted to go
so this probably TransCanada coming back in
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They did put steaks in here before and we
ripped them all out a couple years ago.
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About three years ago, we came out and
tore them all out.
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But this whole area between here and
the truck, that valley, that's where
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they want to run all the pipelines through
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There's no freakin way we're gonna let any
of those guys through.
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So what if we told you that the federal
government doesn't have jurisdiction
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on our territory?
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50% of your proposed project is on
Wet'suwet'en territory.
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And all the hereditary chiefs have said
100% no to this project.
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We...
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We have the final say.
Not the federal government.
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Not the provincial government.
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Well uh. We... I... I hear what you're saying
umm and we're following like I said
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the regulatory process that we have
in front of us and we can talk to you
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about some of the conditions that
include environmental monitoring
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and a lot of surveys. umm environmental
surveys and we can talk to you about that...
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And what if we told you we know that's
bullshit and it doesn't work?
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You look at the state of our whole planet
What it's in and
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All our water is being destroyed
the air is destroyed
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all the trees are being destroyed.
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You can't continue to bulldoze
over my people.
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Our lands. Our final say.
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No pipelines will be coming on our land.
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Drumming and singing