The Land Defender's fight for Fairy Creek is also interwoven with issues of First Nations sovereignty, decolonization, and Indigenous futures.
. The leadership role is one he’s already taking on during this conflict and demonstrates his attachment to Nuu-chah-nulth lands. He can remember seeing the devastating effects of logging on forests when he was as young as four-years-old.
“Trees are pretty important unless you don't like breathing. Trees are here to make us breathe,” he tellsVictor said the blockaders have been peaceful, supportive, and kind people. His favorite moment yet was a prayer walk where he and Elder Bill Jones lead about 120 supporters through a police line to a blockade named Waterfall Camp.
“When settlers came on to this land, they stole our culture, our language, and it still continues to happen to this day,” she said. “Fairy Creek has been the only chance I've gotten in my life to have that community and that family, [to] have that space to do ceremony and to learn the practices and the teachings.”
Sage says that despite those opportunities her experience at the blockades has been bittersweet: “Dealing with colonization and police brutality and being on the front lines as an Indigenous youth, not having the support that we need, has also been really difficult,” she said. “As an Indigenous person, we care about all living creatures,” Sage said. “I'm not just there for the trees. I'm there for the whole ecosystem that comes with the old-growth forest because we care about the trees, we care about the insects, the moss, the salmon... all the biodiversity that comes with those ecosystems.”Raven Brascoupe , a Two-Spirit, Algonquin-Anishinaabe Land Defender, spoke about how awful it is seeing the logging that has been done around Fairy Creek.
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