Members of the Wet’suwet’en nation are anxiously waiting to find out what’s in the draft agreement that their hereditary chiefs recently struck with provincial and federal officials — and will learn more at clan meetings within the week.
Members of the Wet’suwet’en nation are anxiously waiting to find out what’s in the draft agreement that their hereditary chiefs recently struck with provincial and federal officials — and will learn more at clan meetings within the week.
The First Nation will review and potentially ratify the agreement, drafted over the weekend after weeks of civil unrest erupted across the country over the proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline and RCMP arrests of Wet’suwet’en people and their supporters who oppose the project on nation’s territory in northwestern B.C.
“This is where our nation has been trying to get ever since the Delgamuukw Gisday’wa court case was settled,” said Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief Kaliset (also known as Violet Gellenbeck), referring to the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in 1997, which confirmed that the Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan nations never surrendered title to their traditional territories.
However, the case never fully resolved