By Ashley Joannou Cameron Hill was six or seven years old in the 1970s when he and his father took to the water in a wooden skiff to help form a blockade to stop a ship of oil executives who were looking for a tanker route through Gitga’at First Nation territory on B.C.’s northern coast. Five decades later, now as the First Nation’s deputy chief, Hill is repeating a pledge to protect the water on which the nation depends, as talk returns to a possible pipeline in the north and oil tankers traversing their waters. Hill was part of a group of Gitga’at First Nation leaders who met Friday with Alberta’s Minister of Indigenous Relations Rajan Sawhney, a meeting that he described as a “open and honest” as leaders expressed…
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