A Wet’suwet’en leader convicted after blocking work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline addressed a B.C. Supreme Court at the end of sentencing arguments on Thursday, telling the judge her land "has never been ceded or surrendered."
"We are more than just our songs and dances. Our ancestors said, we are the land, and the land is us. Our laws flow from the land, we are nothing without it,” said Sleydo' at the end of the hearing.
Sleydo', also known as Molly Wickham, a wing chief of the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, was one of three people found guilty of criminal contempt last year for breaking a 2019 injunction against people blocking work on the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline in November 2021.
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