Wet’suwet’en and Iowa Quakers

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YINTAH is a video that will soon be released.

“This film contains scenes discussing residential schools, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, suicide, and police violence. Viewer discretion is advised. Yintah follows Wet’suwet’en leaders for over a decade as they fight to protect their lands from fossil-fuel companies.”

You can view the trailer here: https://gem.cbc.ca/yintah


Wet’suwet’en support in Iowa

I was led to do what I could to support the Wet’suwet’en.

Because of my work related to fossil fuel pipeline resistance, I searched daily for news related to that.

I first became aware of the Wet’suwet’en struggles to stop the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline through their pristine land when I saw the video of the pipeline construction crew being evicted from the Wet’suwet’en lands. This was in January 2020.

What followed were years of struggle. I compiled the stories about this work in the following.

Online version of LANDBACK Case Study: Wet’suwet’en and Quakers here: https://designrr.page/?id=60932&token=2932457842&h=2730

Or the PDF version here: