Redtop Road Blockade - Babine Lake, B.C.

Two-person logging road blockade in Wet'suwet'en territory near Smithers, BC. The last stand of intact forest of their traditional territory is in question, following 10 years of Indigenous opposition and government inaction.

Featuring: Richard Sam

Produced by: Amy Miller & Rémy Huberdeau

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Aboriginal
• Indigenous
• Blockade
• Logging
• BC

[norcallogger]

@jetsundolma1 no its that i know how the system is supost to work and when it fails its up to people like you and i who know what is right and wrong to voice our selfs

[jetsundolma1]

@norcallogger Ok dude. You know about how the system works best.

[norcallogger]

@jetsundolma1 yes i can not spell veary well also for you or anyone to clam that a native land eg the area that they lived in is supost to be protected plane and simple and if for some reason it is not then there must be a reason also if the native people feel there land is not being protected then they have legal action they can take to lock up any sale its how that syste works if however the people dont get involved then it goes through and then try to stop it after its aproved

[jetsundolma1]

@norcallogger You obviously DON'T know much about Native history, government/Native relations or large scale business practices . You've demonstrated that repeatedly. Retarded is spelled with a d by the way.

[norcallogger]

@jetsundolma1 ok i was putting the idea of manafest destiny for the idea that the western movment pushed the existing nations out as is move west and kill what ever gets in the way so for you to say i dont know much about the history of indians just makes you retarted

[jetsundolma1]

@norcallogger Dude, you honestly don't see where there is room for fuck up in this scenario??????!!!!!!!

I can think of two glaring ones off hand.

[jetsundolma1]

@norcallogger the very fact that you use and support the term "manafest destiny" says that you in fact don't know much about Native History. That term is about as bad as "The Civilizing Mission" and was used as a form of arrogance and ethnocentrism to justify the colonizers dispicable and ironically very uncivilized acts. I seriously hope they don't use that term in your childrens' school!

[norcallogger]

@jetsundolma1 every one knows what happend with manafest destiny the indians where push out of there lands killed by the hundreds every kid learns this is school so its veary susjustive of you to asume that i dont know anything about the colinization of america

[norcallogger]

@jetsundolma1 ok first off the goverment has nothing to do with this the way a tribe prooves they lived in an area is the same way forresters set up an arc site they higher an arechetic to study the area and find items or sigens that show that it was inhabited and even after 100 years the sighes are there so paper work or not it is an easy problem to solve

[jetsundolma1]

@norcallogger I also believe that just because the government perhaps didn't "give" the land to the Natives (who last time I checked, didn't give the land to the government to do anything with in the first place) that it doesn't mean the land isn't theirs. That's half of the problem with land claims. When you're family has lived on some land for generations, but never had a document to prove it, how do you prove it?