Kaylah Zander Instagram – Repost from @git_luuhl_um_hetxwit
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The ongoing conflict with the Crown has persisted for centuries. Coastal GasLink is the blueprint for replacing our governments with band councils, while undermining our rights and claims to the entirety of our territories. We have witnessed the largest armed theft of land, since the Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa Court cases, over on Wet’suwet’en territory. We cannot stand idly by as Industry, BC, the RCMP, and Canada continue their campaign of extinguishment and forced assimilation. Reconciliation means nothing when our people are forced off their lands at gunpoint. Thank you for your ongoing support for Indigenous freedom and landback.
Gitxsan Land Defenders’ Legal Fund
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“To our Allies and Supporters,
This is an urgent fundraising appeal on behalf of the Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs and supporters, who in February 2020 answered the call to the people of Canada to uphold the Aboriginal title of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs whose unceded traditional territories were being encroached upon by the Coastal Gas Link Pipeline. Many Gitxsan felt obligated to act, as for millennia they have been allies of the Wet’suwet’en and had formed a modern alliance in defense of the traditional lands of the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en in the Delgamuukw/Gisday Wa court case.
I, Chief Spookw, Norman Stephens of the Lax Gibuu (Wolf) clan and many others set up a blockade on a major highway and railway running through the town of New Hazelton, which is on my unceded traditional territory. Subsequently, we were arrested and identified in the legal case, “Canadian National Railway v. John Doe and Persons Unknown”. This is before the courts with the next appearance on December 6, 2021. The legal costs of this case are outstanding and growing.
We, the Gitxsan land defenders request your monetary support for continued defense of our unceded lands, Aboriginal title and rights.
Thank you for your consideration on this matter.
Sincerely,
Chief Spookw, Norman Stephens” | Posted on 09/Dec/2021 05:01:14
