"For too many centuries our First Nation communities haven't had a solution as to how we are going to end the poverty and the suicide rates, not having hope for the future and staying with the status quo...whether you are elected or hereditary, we have a responsibility to our people to improve the quality of life for our members, regardless of where they reside...and I believe the solution is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our people."

"Where are the documents that the hereditary chiefs gave up their responsibility for their lands to band councils? Do they have that? Does it show our hereditary chiefs signed a treaty giving that responsibility to the province or the federal government,"

"Last week, the RCMP commenced enforcement action pursuant to the BC Supreme Court’s December 31, 2019 injunction order. The enforcement action took place following repeated public statements by your government indicating that all permits for the project are in place.

As you are aware, these statements are inaccurate. The Environmental Assessment Office has yet to make a decision to accept Coastal GasLink’s Certificate E14-03 Condition 1 Report #2 in respect of the Morice River Technical Boundary Area. In the absence of a decision on the Report, substantial portions of work on the project cannot proceed.

The Technical Boundary Area is within Dark House territory and subject to Wet’suwet’en title and rights. It also includes the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre. Coastal GasLink’s draft Report fails to consider or address how the project will affect the Healing Centre or Dark House’s ability to provide land-based healing practices to individuals experiencing the effects of intergenerational trauma and colonization."

"Although we have shown the danger of one story, we have also shown that multiple stories exist and that a solution to this has to be one that recognizes Wet’suwet’en title to their lands. Ambiguous language in the media, political jargon, and contradicting  colonial laws grants our colonial government more power and at the end of the day, Indigenous Laws are given less precedence. However, the Wet’suwete’en remind Canada that colonialism has failed because Indigenous Peoples still exist, and so have their traditions, languages and cultures. In fact, the Wet’suwet’en Peoples’ traditional forms of governance have managed to survive the era of residential schools, 60's scoop, Potlatch bans, and ongoing systemic oppression. As educators, we must teach our students the critical thinking skills necessary so that they can identify and evaluate the dangers of single sided stories on their own, acknowledge their privilege as settler and avoid choosing the path of ignorance."

   
“John Horgan and Justin Trudeau have been saying that we are a nation of the rule of law and the rule of law must be followed. If my Nisga’a grandmothers, grandfathers, aunties and uncles, had followed the rule of law, we wouldn’t know where Nisga’a is. If we followed the rule of law, we wouldn’t have any of our language left. If we followed the rule of law, we wouldn’t know what a potlatch was. If we followed the rule of law, we wouldn’t know what unceeded territory is.”

 “We are challenging the injunction because we recognize that the injunction violates our civil liberties, our right to assembly and our right to free speech. We are also challenging the injunction because we do not follow colonial Canadian law. We follow indigenous sovereign law, which means we follow the leadership of the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation and as long as the heredity chiefs stand strong, we stand strong with them.”