Home to five dif­fer­ent clans, the Wet’­suwet’en ter­ri­to­ry in west­ern Canada covers an area of 22,000 km². This land has always been unced­ed. Only the chiefs of the five clans can decide what hap­pens within it. Yet, despite this, the Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment has approved the con­struc­tion of mul­ti­ple pipelines through the Wet’­suwet’en territory.

Led by two strong women, Freda Huson and Molly Wick­ham, a steadi­ly grow­ing move­ment is stand­ing in resis­tance, con­fronting oil work­ers, gov­ern­ment offi­cials and the police. The film YINTAH (‘land’) fol­lows this strug­gle over more than a decade, becom­ing a tes­ta­ment of unwa­ver­ing resis­tance against the oppres­sive poli­cies of the state and the oil industry.

Michael Toledano is an award-win­ning film­mak­er and jour­nal­ist based in British Colum­bia Canada, who has been doc­u­ment­ing the his­toric, Indige­nous-led resis­tance to fossil fuel pipelines on Wet’suwet’en ter­ri­to­ry since 2014.

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