This historic moment for a divided Wet’suwet’en is just one step in a long journey
A new agreement with B.C. and Ottawa is shifting focus from the gas pipeline to how the First Nation should be governed in the future
Wet'suwet'en Nation
For the Wet’suwet’en nation, formal land rights may be on the horizon
If approved, a draft memorandum of understanding would pave the way, but there’s a catch—it would do nothing to stop the contentious pipeline construction already happening
The blockades no one talks about devastate Indigenous economies
Pam Palmater: A giant, well-enforced wall of laws and regulations has kept Indigenous peoples from hunting, fishing, fowling and gathering. Our traditional economies have been criminalized to maintain a non-Indigenous monopoly.
Why Canada needs an independent Indigenous human rights commission
Natan Obed: B.C.’s provincial UNDRIP law creates a self-reporting obligation, which has proven faulty in the Wet’suwet’en situation
Justin Trudeau’s speech in response to anti-pipeline blockades: full transcript
’Do we want to become a country of irreconcilable differences?...Where politicians are ordering police to arrest people. A country where people think they can tamper with rail lines and endanger lives. This is simply unacceptable.’
The Wet’suwet’en are more united than pipeline backers want you to think
Amber Bracken: The difference between Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and elected chiefs is rooted in Aboriginal title, an issue that the Government of Canada continues to leave unresolved
Standing against a B.C. pipeline from three provinces away
Image of the Week: Supporters of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs fighting Coastal GasLink are hitting the streets of their own communities