The end of a chapter is not necessarily the end of the book.
As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and this website was created to bring attention to the wrongs in our society, that were not being publicly addressed. Millions of dollars were and continue to this day are being poured into our communities, not to build it up, but to act as destructive forces to tear us down. We saw and continue to see billions of dollars by American influencers targeting local jobs in the resources sector. This in turn led to the creation of career activists, finding a lucrative alterative to working in any productive field or career.
In 2018 our website became the only independent voice that was 100% unfunded by outside influence, we never took a dime from industry, government and even turned down many offers of donations. We did this 100% based on conviction and giving back to our local communities that stood by us since the day we were born. It started as one lone justice warrior and resulted in so many contacts that it became a community effort.
We did at times make mistakes, but we were always admitting them and correcting information that proved to be incorrect. At the end of the day, we collected more information about many people claiming to be Wet’suwet’en, that were in fact not Wet’suwet’en at all, but rather they had indigenous bloodlines from neighbouring bands. The Wet’suwet’en could be broken down in two groups, one group being pampered and funded by a trickle down funding system originating from American influencers. The second group, were the members ranging from Hazelton to Burns lake who had no say in what the radicals were pulling off, They are the brothers and sisters of our community, never blame them for the wrongs done by radicals.
This website will remain online as a living testament on who sold out and who did not. We could never have gathered so much information with the help of so many Wet’suwet’en matriarchs and not surprising either so many Wet’suwet’en patriarchs, and due to the real threats they endured and still endure we have kept their names off our pages. It will also serve as a means for the Wet’suwet’en nation to reference many facts that I am certain the so-called Hereditary Chiefs are hoping will slip by, so they can claim title for their family, when it belongs to other families. Case in point is the title of Smogelgem and Cheif Woos and so many more titles in the wrong hands, and all of them were actively in bed with those anti industry professional activists.
There are so many Hereditary Chiefs sitting on titles they do not really own. There is a clear pattern in place, one where they told and sold the public, a set of rules and guidelines, that none of the current chiefs follow. But in their effort to bamboozle the public they did two things that will come back to haunt them. They claimed that “Eagle Down is Our Law” is their guide to Wet’suwet’en rules and laws. The second was a book they have written and procured as required education in local high schools. In it we can find many rules flagrantly violated by the same chiefs who had this book produced. Its called “The Ways of our Ancestor”s in English and “Niwhts ‘ide’ni Hibi’it’en” in Wet’suwet’en.
I would urge every member of the Wet’suwet’en Band that is interested in the governance to read these two books, both promoted by the existing Hereditary Chiefs. More importantly, to call them out when they are breaking their own rules.
One note before closing, if the Wet’suwet’en Nation really wants to keep the “Hereditary system” as a means of governance, they need to weed out all the fraudsters and those with illegitimate titles. The only way to do this is to genetically verify each individual case, and insure they are following the matrilineal bloodlines, and ensure that those who were born of Gitxsan mothers or grandmothers do not qualify for Wet’suwet’en governance. Right now, a number of Hereditary Chiefs are direct descendants on the mother’s side from Gitxsan lineage. There are really messed up linage charts being followed where the paternal side was Wet’suwet’en but the linage that is supposed to be followed was Gitxsan or in some cases even other nations. Look through our website we exposed a lot of illegitimate claims. This also should include researching the illegal theft of Herditary title, if Eagle Down is the law, then follow it, and not the con artists at the head of the table.
With that said, this website will remain online as a chronology of the radical movement in the Bulkley Valley, that holds a lot of facts about real and fake Wet’suwet’en, and how they were abused by foreign influence, that harmed so many families in their community.
With that said, the next chapter is on another website. NORTHERN EXPOSURE
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