Misinformation by the Guardian News
In a new article by the Guardian News focused on ‘We can feel our ancestors’: one First Nation’s fight to save Canada’s old forests“followed by this line The Wet’suwet’en First Nation never signed treaties with the Canadian or provincial governments, yet their land was leased to timber companies By Erica Gies in Wet’suwet’en First Nation. <- Another imported intruder into our Community.
The story starts like this.
Flying over squares of clearcuts and various shades of green marking conifer plantations in north central British Columbia, the pilot followed directions from David DeWit, a leader of Wet’suwet’en First Nation. DeWit’s map of their territory’s traditional trails reflected markers on the ground: circles carved into trees, which offered proof of the Nation’s history in this area.
Now lets look at the same story in a different but equally as honest way. Instead of “David DeWit, a leader of Wet’suwet’en First Nation” We put David DeWitt is a third generation immigrant from Holland” How would that affect the story? Its the truth, somehow after living all the benefits of colonials sudden the blood of a colonial evaporates? We could name his father and his grandfather on his fathers side but we will leave this where it is, A third generation colonial cashing in of aboriginal advantages.
The next person the article quotes said the following.
“We want to conserve it for future generations,” said Charlotte Euverman, the Wet’suwet’en woman leading a fight to save this area, which includes a traditional feasting site. “We have to leave them something.”
Now lets add in some more facts. Charlotte Euverman gained her last name from another Dutch immigrant. Adding another media overlooked fact is she is not even a Wet’suwet’en. The reason might be is that they stopped following their self proclaimed matrilineal system, this holds true for both Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en First Nations. Let me show you the proof, as provided by her eldest sister Violet Gellenbeck (who also got her last name from a dutch immigrant), they are both descendants of the Basil family. The father “Basil” was Wet’suwet’en, their mother Lucy, was the daughter of a Gitxsan woman, so their true heritage is Gitxsan.
If Charlotte was so concerned about future generations, why has she never run for office in her own community in Witset? Why has she never really lived in her so called hometown? They have regular elections where people who care about their future generations put their names forward to run in Band Council elections, they are in fact exactly the same as municipal elections. Charlotte Euverman has for decades been living on Lheidli T’enneh First Nations territory, in Prince George, now she is here with imported media to pretend she is local? She has not been local for decades.
As a long time local I can assure anyone that if you speak to locals, you will learn a lot more than the deception created in this article. Funny how the writer Erica Gies writing for the Guardian, fails to admit many of the Hereditary Chiefs made thier fortune from being logging contractors. Funny how Charlotte Euverman fails to mention the colonial she was married to earned his life saving from the forest industry, where he worked for a relative who also owned a logging company.
For Erica Gies to come here in person, visit Witset and make no mention of how colonials had to save the village from forest fires two years consecutive, and not mention if those trees were harvested, the risk factor would have been near zero. Also how could she possibly write this article with no mention of the locally owned (aboriginal) sawmill called Kyahwood Forest Products or mention Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake, B.C.? Clearly this is a propaganda piece by people with personal self interests to create a shortcut to wealth.
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Why is there so much silence on the issue that Alphonse Gagnon (Chief Kloum Khun) Adam Gagnon (wing chief) Warner William (Chief Knedebeas) and Fred Tom (Chief Gisday’wa) all made their living and fortunes logging the Morice River watershed.
No this article was not written by a lobby group, or are we undermining climate change, its as perennial as the grass under our feet, and no amount of taxation, or blocked logging will fix that, what we don’t harvest will burn in forest fires as per what nature intended.
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