00:00My name is Diane Abel and this is Treaty 8 Territory, so we just ask that you would honour our treaty.
00:21We're fighting for the last piece of valley that we have.
00:27We're in this fight to get them to pay attention to who we are as a people.
00:32More than 200 of Canada's leading scholars concluded Site C would have more adverse environmental effects than any project in the history of Canada's Environmental Assessment Act.
00:43We used to gather the fish from the river and now today we have to deal with the lead poisoning and the mercury poisoning.
00:49The fish ain't even safe anymore.
00:54Anytime we want to protect the land you always have to fight or take it to court.
01:00Site C has been a political project. Politicians like to pose in front of mega projects wearing hard hats.
01:07We started protesting Site C and they've been on the river ever since. RCMP doesn't intimidate them.
01:14This is Dhanesaw Territory. We'll stay here and fight until the very end.
01:21If they're able to do this, why do we have treaties? What is the promise for?
01:25We spent the last hundred years in a lot.
01:28Site C dam, if it ever gets built, our people will have to move.
01:34Why are we afraid to stand up and protect what's rightfully ours?
01:39It's our last chance, really. Do our people have to go and stand in the water?
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