And So, I am the highest ranking chief of the Beaver Clan, the Tuyar Clan, of the Watto Nation, and as a hereditary chief, my name has been active for thousands upon thousands of

years on the grandchildren territory we look after 22,000 square kilometers of territory.

Christine, Lakes, rivers, creeks, lands, or mountainous lakes.

We have agriculture, mining, forestry forestry as industries here and we are the government on the land

We've never seated nor surrendered any of our land. We've never signed a treaty

There is not one document that has even faded it on our behalf.

When it comes to elected officials, whether they be provincial or federal, they only have assumed

and presumed authority on our land and this is why we are constantly in court.

We're trying to follow their laws, but every time we go to court we win.

They may get an injunction but that does not mean that the battle is over.

We have nowhere else to go.

This is our home.

We have industry come in.

They make the mess.

Then they get to go home and we get to be left with the mess.

We'll never take that risk.

We've yet to lose any of the battles that we've been in because this is our land.

We have a right to look after it. Canada cannot tell us what to do.

Industry cannot tell us what to do. And anything that happens on the land must have our

approval. And one thing we will not do is put a price tag on our land. We have the cleanest

waters, we have salmon, we have wildlife, we have our medicine, we have our

berries, our foods, and that that's what we depend on and we have no intention on every given up those

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