The Wet’suwet’en struggle is far from over – The Coast Halifax

January 17, 2019

The RCMP believed the fallout from their assault on the Wet’suwet’en would be contained and minimal. They have already been proven wrong.

Sixty-five kilometres up a logging road near Houston, British Columbia, just beyond a river from which you can drink directly, lies an unceded territory actively defended by its original people. To enter, you need to go through a free, prior, and informed consent protocol designed to keep people out who do not benefit the land and its people. Once inside, you find a flourishing off-grid community with gardens and large buildings for housing, food storage, cooking and healing, built by the land defenders and their allies.

The Unist’ot’en (one of the five Wet’suwet’en clans) have been building permanent infrastructure on their yin’tah (territory) since 2010 as a strategy to resist unwanted pipelines. They have built a holistic healing centre on the path of these pipelines, where people can go to heal from trauma while learning to live off the land.

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