Three generations of ladies from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation combat towards the enlargement of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in “We Are the Water.”
“Tsleil-Waututh means ‘folks of the inlet.’ So our names and our identities are connected to the our bodies of water that we reside on,” acknowledged Kaya George, a 23-year-old activist and voice of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in “We Are the Water.”
These ancestral lands and waters are at the moment often known as British Columbia. They’re additionally the house of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. Such industrial progress from European settlers has traditionally devastated the land and, extra importantly, the water.
To turn out to be “protectors of the water,” the Tsleil-Waututh Nation created the Sacred Belief Initiative to combat towards the pipeline’s enlargement.
“This isn’t a narrative about victimhood, it’s not a narrative about despair, it’s a narrative about what people will be …” mentioned photographer and storyteller Dani Khan De Silva in “We Are the Water.”
Runtime: 8 minutes
