Heal the people,

people,

land. A simple yet profound declaration by wing chief

Frida Houston of the Wetsowet Nation's Big Frog Clan and Dark House.

Amidst the ravages of Canadian genocide and its consolidation in the

oil and gas industry's unabated extractivism on unseated indigenous territory, there is an

answer.

Heal the people, heal the land.

This is precisely what is taking place on the Yinta from Unestatin to Gidham Den,

where people and the land are more important than pipelines and profit.

In this episode of the Red Nation podcast, you'll hear a mix tape of coverage on the

indigenous lead struggle against the Coastal Gaslink pipeline or CGL in what is currently referred to as British Columbia and four indigenous life and land on Wetsowetin territory. The mixtape begins with a statement from

hereditary chief namax of the Beaver Clan and rafters on Beaver House who

offers an overview of Wetsowoten nonviolent land defense in the face of the

spectacular violence of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or R. C. M. P.

Next, Nick Estes talks with Dr. Carla Tate about how the Wetsowet and blockades of CGL are more than just protesting a natural gas pipeline, but also about reoccupying ancestral lands, building critical infrastructure

to care-take community members and relations with more than human relatives and decolcolonial healing.

Finally, I speak with Wing Chief Slido,

Spokesperson for Gittenden Checkpoint,

and her sister, Jen Wickham,

media coordinator for Gittenden Checkpoint,

about the failures of the colonial... media coordinator for Gidham Den checkpoint,

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