By Marc Lalonde Local Journalism Initiative Reporter 13/06/2024 A powerful documentary that followed the Wet’suwet’en protest against a natural-gas pipeline through their traditional, unceded territory will headline the First Peoples Festival of Montreal in a little over a month. The film, called Yintah, examines the outcry and subsequent battle over the pipeline’s construction through vast swaths of British Columbia forest and the Wet’suwet’en protest and occupation of the land. Spanning more than a decade, the film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies. ‘Yintah’ is the story of the Indigenous right to sovereignty over Indigenous territories. Huson, Wickham, and the Dinï ze’ and Tsakë ze’ peoples are part of a centuries-long fight to…
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