First Nation Clan Blocks Path of Northern Pipelines in British Columbia

26/11/13
Author: 
Joseph Jones
This Is Unist’ot’en Territory

Rosa Parks famously occupied the seat of a Montgomery bus, an action that sparked a revolution in U.S. racial relations. The Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en now defiantly occupies territory whose location is critical to a proposed new pipeline route. They experience daily surveillance by helicopters that sometimes buzz close over the main cabin of the occupation.