\u00a0By\u00a0Marc Lalonde \u00a0Local Journalism Initiative Reporter \u00a013\/06\/2024 A powerful documentary that followed the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en 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\u2019s construction through vast swaths of British Columbia forest and the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en protest and occupation of the land. Spanning more than a decade, the film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo\u2019 Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies. \u2018Yintah\u2019 is the story of the Indigenous right to sovereignty over Indigenous territories. Huson, Wickham, and the Din\u00ef ze\u2019 and Tsak\u00eb ze\u2019 peoples are part of a centuries-long fight to… <\/p>\n
\u00a0By\u00a0Marc Lalonde \u00a0Local Journalism Initiative Reporter \u00a013\/06\/2024 A powerful documentary that followed the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en 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\u2019s construction through vast swaths of British Columbia forest and the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en protest and occupation of the land. Spanning more than a decade, the film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo\u2019 Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies. \u2018Yintah\u2019 is the story of the Indigenous right to sovereignty over Indigenous territories. Huson, Wickham, and the Din\u00ef ze\u2019 and Tsak\u00eb ze\u2019 peoples are part of a centuries-long fight to... <\/p>\n