Join us in the Sooke Library Multipurpose Room for a screening and discussion of the film, Yintah (shortened CBC version).
Yintah (2024), 88 mins
YINTAH — the Witsuwit’en word for “land” — tells the story of an Indigenous nation’s fight for sovereignty as they resist the construction of multiple oil and fracked-gas pipelines across their territory.
Over the period of a decade, the film follows Tsakë ze’ Howilhkat Freda Huson, Tsakë ze’ Sleydo’ Molly Wickham and their fellow land defenders as they reoccupy their traditional territory and galvanize their nation in a fight against several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth. YINTAH is about an anti-colonial resurgence — a fierce and ongoing fight for Indigenous and human rights. The film reveals the hypocrisy of the Canadian government’s espousal of reconciliation, as Indigenous land is still being seized at gunpoint for the purpose of resource extraction.
Directed by: Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano
