Sarita Ahooja

Part 5: Boots speaks about one of the actions in a wave of protests ensuing from the initial land reclamation on Douglas Creek Estate and the following Stirling Street takeover in Caledonia (Ontario).… Read more

Part 4: Leroy Hill and Bill Montour explain the importance of challenging the divide and rule logic of the colonial system.

Bill outlines the 8 points of jurisdiction that are central to the defense of their traditional land base and culture:

1) the Haudenosaunee Great Law,

2) the Land,

3) Treaties,

4) International relations,

Part 3: Bill Montour - Six Nations elected councillor in the Indian Act administrative body, the Band Council - speaks about the history of research that has been done to establish Six Nations ownership to the Haldimand Tract.

Part 2: Leroy Hill, Cayuga Nation, is one of the Six Nations Confederacy chiefs who participates in the land negotiations with the federal and provincial governments.… Read more

In February 2006, ten women and their children galvanized the community of Six Nations into occupying an area called Douglas Creek Estate to halt the growing land encroachment by the bordering town of Caledonia. The area, Six Nations land, had been illegally sold to a US-based developer to build a suburban housing complex.

Part 2 looks at the issues of authentic justice for indigenous people, environmental sustainability and a revolutionary change in thinking...

Connie and Rhonda discuss the differences between the court-ordered Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the grassroots elders tribunal called the Truth Commission.

Part 4 describes what has been dubbed as 'Fortress British Columbia', the largest public security operation in the history of Canada.

Part 3 focuses on the grassroots actions the indigenous communities have been undertaking to defend their land and right to self-determination. It also highlights the criminalization of Indigenous resistance.

Part 2 is about elder, Harriet Nahanee, and her struggle against the destruction brought on by the development of the Sea to Sky Highway Expansion, a main artery from Vancouver city to the Whistler ski resort (a 2010 venue).