It’s a dispute made highly consequential because of its impact on the $40 billion LNG Canada project that depends on a gas pipeline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Male hereditary chiefs have been trying to exclude women chiefs from hereditary titles because the women have shown that 85 per cent of First Nations members support the $6.2-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the chiefs, Wi’hali’yte (Theresa Tait Day), sat down with Resource Works recently and told her side of the story. The following videos were shot on March 5 in Prince George. The interviewer is our executive director, Stewart Muir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hereditary chief Wi’hali’yte (Theresa Tait Day) explains how names are passed down from one generation to the next in the Wet’suwet’en tradition. She argues that some men with hereditary titles have become oppressors of women in the First Nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n