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Return to Gale Creek
On October 13, 2016, the Nathan E. Stewart tug and fuel barge ran aground near Gale Creek after the watchperson fell asleep. 110,000 litres of oil and fuel spilled into unceded Heiltsuk territorial waters on BC’s central coast as a result, and efforts to contain the spill failed. Return to Gale Creek features
father and daughter, Russell and Latoya Windsor who have a special connection to Gale Creek, an area severely impacted by the spill. In this short film, Russell, who was a first responder at the site of the spill, and Latoya reflect some of their memories of Gale Creek, the day of the incident, and the lasting impact it has had on themselves personally, and the Heiltsuk community.
This film was produced as part of Yellowhead Institute's knowledge mobilization work for 2019 Red Paper, Land Back. This Red Paper is about how First Nation lands have been stolen and how they're getting it back. Part Four of the report, Reclamation, featured twelve case studies, including the case of the Nathan E. Stewart spill and the Heiltsuk community's response, which ultimately created an infrastructure for future environmental and marine care through the Horizon Maritime partnership.
To download the Red Paper, please visit redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org.
CREDITS
Russell Windsor
Latoya Windsor
Filmed & Directed by Damien Gillis
Produced by Damien Gillis & Yumi Numata
Funded by Inspirit Foundation and Yellowhead Institute
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  • @nevergiveup356
    @nevergiveup356 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for this important and moving film. I'm a White man living in what is known as Eastern Ontario and I had never heard of this oil spill or the Heiltsuk nation or the new Indigenous led infrastructure to help respond to potential future incidents. I plan to incorporate this education into my advocacy and voting decisions and other aspects of living in Canada. w̓álas ǧiáxsix̌a (I think "big thank you" in the Heiltsuk language that I found just now in an internet search) - T 🙏🏻

  • @elizabethharvester6111
    @elizabethharvester6111 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Oh yeah! I recognized that voice! Darla Contois who acted in the role of "Bezhig" in the drama series "Little Bird". This was a beautiful important message - thank you for sharing it.

  • @elizabethharvester6111
    @elizabethharvester6111 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such a sad thing to watch - but I'm also uplifted by how the People used their Medicines and ceremonies to help with the healing of the Land, Water, and Relatives. ❤‍🩹

  • @sierralefave
    @sierralefave หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such an incredibly important and moving video about the situation and experience of indigenous people who were impacted by the spill. Chi miigwetch for this impactful storytelling.

  • @51spook70
    @51spook70 หลายเดือนก่อน

    there has to be more, or else the thieves covered their tracks well as they were the elete who did not want competition in being the wealthiest.

  • @DevonPhoenix
    @DevonPhoenix 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What sickness

  • @Mark-ej4uf
    @Mark-ej4uf 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    scholarly.

  • @dakotawarner9414
    @dakotawarner9414 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much, I'm 22 and studying really hard to be able to dance, I'm making my first regalia set this year :)

  • @chrisalbright3599
    @chrisalbright3599 ปีที่แล้ว

    All she is a wannabe terrorist hiding under guise of a land defender

  • @mbsraynnjek4143
    @mbsraynnjek4143 ปีที่แล้ว

    💔

  • @evaprince5360
    @evaprince5360 ปีที่แล้ว

    The moral of the story is that this is STOLEN LAND!!!!! All of it!!!!!!

  • @unceded
    @unceded ปีที่แล้ว

    Anti's poisoned the well of understanding. As terrible the suffering is today there is still onwegitchgewin.

  • @noviolenceforkids6297
    @noviolenceforkids6297 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you. I am listening.

  • @rampantmutt9119
    @rampantmutt9119 ปีที่แล้ว

    “On September 4, 2012, the federal government let fall any pretence of seeking compromise or reform when it announced the ‘results based’ approach to modern treaty (comprehensive claims) and self-government agreements. Henceforth, the federal government would only deal with bands that, in effect, agree to surrender before the negotiations continue. To be included in the future negotiations, bands would be required to: Accept the extinguishment (modification) of Aboriginal Title; Accept the legal release of Crown liability for past violations of Aboriginal Title & Rights; Accept elimination of Indian Reserves by accepting lands in fee simple; Accept removing on-reserve tax exemptions; Respect existing Third Party Interests (and therefore alienation of Aboriginal Title territory without compensation); Accept (to be assimilated into) existing federal & provincial orders of government; Accept application of Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms over governance & institutions in all matters; Accepting Funding on a formula basis being linked to own source revenue; Other measures, and accept becoming Aboriginal municipalities.” - The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy - Arthur Manuel and Ronald Derrickson

  • @markeves8949
    @markeves8949 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Molly Wickham has a white father, Frank Alec is a convicted wife beater. Seth Lefort who blocked the rail outside of Belleville Ontario is described by the chief of the Six Nations police as a Drug dealer. Skyler Williams has had public allegations against him of sexual misconduct. These people are not true FN. They're flawed people who rely on useful fools. They also pay asshats like Nick Kolbasook to stand on the lines. Nick Kolbasook fled New York State from weapons and drug charges. This is not FN representation. Useful fools.

  • @markeves8949
    @markeves8949 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Land defender. No such thing. You stayed on the land, but NOT with the people. Why are you against the Majority of the tribe?

  • @markeves8949
    @markeves8949 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are you in support of the firebombing of vehicles including an ambulance parked at a hotel with children inside?

  • @julianneblackbird8680
    @julianneblackbird8680 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you/niaweh for sharing this knowledge. im starting to design my fancy outfit, the info you've shared helps make me feel more confident in my journey. -tewahanehnay

  • @linda6893
    @linda6893 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Allow is a strange word, in certain contexts. Do the people have adequate space, for growth of every kind. Research that. Are the homeless going home, to community. Research that. Are you holding onto your title, to land. Are you making it a requirement for resource sharing, in the name of partnership in the development of normal co existence. I'm not liking the 3rd sentence of the previous poster. Maybe the people, need to research that?

  • @LynnGehl
    @LynnGehl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    There is no "Land Back" in modern treaties. All we have to do is look at the Algonquin land claims process in Ontario. We are offered 1.7% of our traditional territory and no resource revenue sharing. I do wonder why the Yellowhead Institute is not placing more effort in exposing this fraud. I say this because we are talking about land the Parliament Hill squats on; this means the Algonquin issue has the potential to raise awareness to Canada's ongoing colonization. Nothing has changed. Nothing at all. There is no land back.

  • @dianacruz5985
    @dianacruz5985 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Type O blood is less likely to contract their diseases. Research. Type O blood and shovel shaped incisors are indigenous peoples genetic traits from the north to the South from the east to the west

  • @jackreacher1717
    @jackreacher1717 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    When ANY people won't ingratiate or acclimate themselves into society,then they are not a part of the society by their own choice. When you separate yourself from the rest of us,then you are responsible for whatever difficulties you face alone. If natives ever stop 'purposely' trying to be outside of society,then they would get actual help they need from society.

    • @kaylagardiner5231
      @kaylagardiner5231 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe you should take a class on public policy then you would be able to notice your ignorance and realize that life does not work like that.

  • @Tokyotreeman
    @Tokyotreeman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey shout out to you I’m from hobbema

  • @stash_attack3244
    @stash_attack3244 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this video and information

  • @shaelynwabegijig9358
    @shaelynwabegijig9358 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gchi miigwetch for this webinar - this gives me so much hope and perspective! Also preparing me for my Indigenous Governance degree at University of Victoria. Also so cool this was posted on my birthday... December 10th, international human rights day <3 All my relations!

  • @dakotajoseph45
    @dakotajoseph45 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Howa

  • @anitaarcand9360
    @anitaarcand9360 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    beautiful!

  • @xhoustonkingx6212
    @xhoustonkingx6212 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How are yall? I seen yall tik tok. Last video was around September of last year and those last videos looked like those workers were trying to be violant towards yall

  • @nun_bel_eever
    @nun_bel_eever 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    *Canadians are in the same state as Germans were while they were committing genocide. They didn't sit at the breakfast table after praying to Jesus to bless the food & discuss fry a few dozen Jews. They went after their property and then their persons....*

  • @talaparis4372
    @talaparis4372 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello there, My comment may not be like most of the others, but it is important to me to open up about that. I am french and always lived in France. I am 22, at the moment, close to my 23th spring. My whole life, I have been close to nature in a way, animals, living as much as I could in harmony with everything around me, being an animist. Through my research to find other beliefs close to mine, the only ones I could find and feel a connection with, were the ones of the First Nations. I never understood it. But I always felt like it was more natural and logical to me than any other. Something I never felt with my people. I can't explain it. Now a day, I'm trying, from France, to help First Nations as much as I can. I don't have a lot of money, just what's needed for me to live an humble life. But that's okay. I want to talk about MMIW, Orange Day Shirt, and things like that. I want to teach people about your condition, and about the real story and how things really are for you all now, in both the US and Canada. When I read Dominique Rankin's book, I felt like... I don't know how to name it. I have CPTSD, so I felt like someone could understand me, more, that a people could understand me, in this healing journey, facing traumas. Also, the more he was talking about how he lived before the reservations, the residential school (it was terrible to read about it, but necessary, in a way), I felt like it was a logical way of life : simple, slow, with nature's seasons, calmer and more relaxed life, in peace and harmony. Since then, the Anishinaabe have always had a big place in my heart. It feels like you are the family I "should" have had, in a way. I will never stop saying I am white, agender, french, or use any other terms that aren't from your culture (like for my gender for example), because I don't want to do any culture appropriation. But I feel a connection I can't denie, and to me, your people got the keys of spirituality, wisdom, a lot of different medicine, that can help us live a better life, closer to nature. Europeans may have forgot about it, but we once lived just like you, First Nations, did. It is just that we stopped long before we forced you to stop, and for the worst. We became greedy, bitter, anxious, unhappy, and then, we forced the ones that weren't suffering like us (what they called "uncivilizised") to suffer like us, because we couldn't take it, I suppose. I want things to change, for the better. What was done then was a horrible genocide and it should have never happened. What you are experiencing now because of the colons descendants isn't right either. But I want to believe that we can all, Yellow, Red, Black, White people, create a better place, a better future, not just for us, but also for the next generations. I want to learn from your people. I truly want. I may have a warrior spirit, but my heart is peaceful and right. Thank you for reading this long comment. Take care of yourself, Tala

  • @mariepatricia-lynnthomas144
    @mariepatricia-lynnthomas144 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    🪶🕊

  • @jeremiahcraggett4960
    @jeremiahcraggett4960 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How thick did u cut your otter pelts? I've seen them worn whole, can u tell me what inspired yours to be the size they are?

  • @wesleyau4446
    @wesleyau4446 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    powerful message

  • @salamane13
    @salamane13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for posting! As a newer Canadian still learning this is very helpful to understanding First Nations issues.

    • @linda-i7k5s
      @linda-i7k5s 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Helpful to understanding CANADIAN issues. WE, are the cause of First Nations and Inuit present, past and future challenges. It is a CANADIAN issue, created by the country itself and the on going Religious Business Plan still rolling freely around, for FREE as per habit. Christianism in Turtle Island is A Business Plan and nothing more, based on FACTS and evidence.

  • @bintemuhajir
    @bintemuhajir 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Paul and Isadore: Living Anishinaabemowin th-cam.com/channels/lJGSbSurwwu4oAdctUNxkg.html

  • @chrisb4419
    @chrisb4419 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    SOLIDARITY <3

  • @robertronning7016
    @robertronning7016 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm Bob and I am the old turtle and I have some messages for you

  • @spiritfitscott
    @spiritfitscott 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome video miigwetch !😀

  • @ricjonez1816
    @ricjonez1816 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Baamaadziwin

  • @shay2467
    @shay2467 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks so much for showing how to tie the Otter fur hair pelts! I recently got some and and I’m practicing how to tie them. As you said perfection is not possible ☺️❤️ I’m starting my Jingle Dress journey this month.

  • @whitelightdistrict8104
    @whitelightdistrict8104 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    THE GIANT LEAP; th-cam.com/video/bbVCtQ_3qw4/w-d-xo.html

  • @RedCanyonWolf
    @RedCanyonWolf 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh I loved all the knowledge you shared. I didn’t get to grow up with elders and aunties so all I have are amazing people like you to teach me.

  • @kingmajestic-7emissaryspir959
    @kingmajestic-7emissaryspir959 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hiy Hiy

  • @mojorising1
    @mojorising1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know this is my soul. Don't eat bottom feeders either 🙏

  • @sitori663
    @sitori663 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I ❤ this video!! My 2nd-great-grandmother was an Ojibwe / Chippewa Medicine Woman. I am so thankful for videos like this since the teachings of my Ojibwe & First Nation ancestors were not passed down due to discrimination, pressure to integrate with white European culture, and further intermarriage with "white" Europeans. We are living in scary but also exciting times. Watch the documentary "Psychedelica" on the Gaia channel. It is amazing. So educational. The "plant medicines" also include Cannabis & psychedelics - used for thousands of years by Indigenous peoples and likely by early Christians, too. They were criminalized by the Nixon administration in large part to discriminate against people of color. The powerful pharmaceutical companies profited enormously from their criminalization. The path to legalization has been progressing, and hopefully the pharmaceutical companies will not get away with highjacking & perverting this natural plant medicine from Mother Earth. It is our right as human beings to take back control of our psychological, spiritual and physical health and use plant based medicines if we so choose - instead of toxic, expensive, and often addictive and ineffective chemicals made in a lab! Studies are showing how these plant medicines can "reset" a person's brain to function "normally" - rid itself of toxic programming that leads to so much unhappiness with life. Research shows that unlike legal alcohol, these plant medicines are NOT addictive. Research shows they are vastly more effective at treating mental health issues, chronic pain, and potentially helpful in treating ADHD! And the plant medicines don't need to be taken constantly or even frequently. For some people 1 time was enough to cure crippling depression and/or PTSD. They are IMO the #1 hope for healing the human race - reset humans' brains after generations of being raised in an increasingly toxic, violent, hyper-materialistic culture. The collective reintegration of our connection to and reverence for our Mother Earth needs to be restored. Indigenous knowledge & practices are desperately needed. 🌎 ❤

  • @justinfromgod941
    @justinfromgod941 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oil yourself tooo!!!!

  • @redat2957
    @redat2957 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Miigwech Sissy! I Love your teaching on protocol .