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On a misty morning in the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people blockaded a muddy dirt road on Lyell Island, deman | dG1fcnJHT2ZrbUxUQk0
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00:00To call the Haida people Vikings of the Pacific isn't really far wrong.
00:09Well, I think the Vikings are the Haidas of the Atlantic.
00:18There is a big battle on.
00:22It's over the preservation of South Moresby,
00:25the home of the Haida,
00:27who are making aboriginal claims for the island.
00:30We are here to protect Haida land from improper logging.
00:36You're blocking the highway and you're stopping us from going to work
00:39and we ask you to step aside.
00:40There will be no logging on the area that the Haida people have designated as not to be touched.
00:48The law has moved into Lyle Island.
00:53I think they'd probably like nothing better than to jail us all and criminalize us.
00:58I mean, if they don't get off the road, I would hope it comes to a rest.
01:01We have to do something.
01:03We can't let the economy of this province go down the tube for lawbreakers.
01:07Are you willing to go to jail for this?
01:12I think a lot of people think we are foolish, but we are not.
01:17We are at this moment protecting our land.
01:20What we need to do is to negotiate as mutually respecting peoples how we're going to exist together.
01:30Father, please forgive them.
01:33They do not know what they do.
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