By NetNewsLedger -https:\/\/www.netnewsledger.com\/2021\/11\/20\/rcmp-actions-in-wetsuweten-threaten-to-cause-country-wide-protests\/<\/p>\n
November 20, 2021<\/p>\n
WET\u2019SUWET\u2019EN TERRITORY, SMITHERS, BC \u2013 Sleydo\u2019 Molly Wickham, Chief Woos\u2019 daughter, and other Indigenous land defenders were among 11 people arrested at Coyote Camp yesterday. This was the second day in an ongoing siege. A convoy of dozens of RCMP officers, escorting Coastal GasLink workers and heavy equipment, violently raided Coyote Camp removing Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en people from their own lands. Chief Woos, other Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en supporters, allies, and media were denied access to the territory at an illegal exclusion zone set up by RCMP.<\/p>\n
Prior to her arrest, Sleydo\u2019 stated: \u201cThe Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en people, under the governance of their hereditary Chiefs, are standing in the way of the largest fracking project in Canadian history. Our medicines, our berries, our food, the animals, our water, our culture, our homes are all here since time immemorial. We will never abandon our children to live in a world with no clean water. We uphold our ancestral responsibilities. There will be no pipelines on Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory.\u201d<\/p>\n