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The Wetʼsuwetʼen are a First Nation who live on the Bulkley River and around Burns Lake, Broman Lake, and François Lake in the northwestern Central Interior of British Columbia.

They speak Witsuwitʼen, a dialect of the Babine-Witsuwitʼen language which, like its sister language Carrier, is a member of the Athabaskan family.

Their oral history, called kungax, recounts that their ancestral village, Dizkle or Dzilke, once stood upstream from the Bulkley Canyon. This cluster of cedar houses on both sides of the river is said to have been abandoned because of an omen of impending disaster. The exact location of the village has been lost. The neighbouring Gitxsan people of the Hazelton area have a similar tale, though the village in their version is named Dimlahamid (Temlahan)

The endonym Wetʼsuwetʼen means "People of the Wa Dzun Kwuh River (Bulkley River)"

The Wet’suwet’en First Nation was formerly part of the Omineca Band. However, in 1984 the Omineca Band split into the Broman Lake and Nee-Tahi-Buhn bands. The Skin Tayi band later split off from Nee-Tahi-Buhn. Today, the Skin Tyee Band, Nee Tahi Buhn Band, Wet’suwet’en First Nation, Moricetown Band and Hagwilget Band make up the Wet’suwet’en Nation.

Like most First Nations here, Wet’suwet’en never signed treaties with the Canadian or provincial governments. Nevertheless, the latter took the land and leased forested acreage to logging companies. Today just 20% of British Columbia’s old-growth forests remain.

In 2020, after decades of activist pressure, the province identified about a quarter of the remaining old growth as at high risk for logging and recommended a pause while deciding their fate. Yet today, logging has been deferred in less than half of the high-risk area.

Another conflict with the settler state has been the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which seeks to transport liquefied natural gas from northeast BC to a terminal on the coast near the town of Kitimat.

The 670-kilometre (417-mile) pipeline will cut across traditional Wet’suwet’en lands that cover 22,000sq km across northern BC.

The hereditary chiefs, who under Wet’suwet’en law claim authority over those traditional territories, said they never gave their consent for the project to move forward. They have raised concerns about the pipeline’s potential effects on the land, water, and their community.

In late July, Amnesty International took the extraordinary step in naming Dsta’hyl Canada’s first ever designated prisoner of conscience, and now demanding his immediate and unconditional release.

“The Canadian state has unjustly criminalized and confined Chief Dsta’hyl for defending the land and rights of the Wet’suwet’en people,” Amnesty International’s Ana Piquer stated in a press release. “As a result, Canada joins the shameful list of countries where prisoners of conscience remain under house arrest or behind bars.”

In October 2021, Dsta’hyl was arrested and charged with criminal contempt after confiscating and decommissioning heavy equipment utilized by Coastal GasLink to construct its LNG pipeline on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. Dsta’hyl said he was enforcing Wet’suwet’en laws as the company did not have the free, prior and informed consent of hereditary chiefs to build the pipeline.

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[–] Des@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

been thinking about doing a short write up about Fergie Chambers, the Marxist Leninist billionaire heir to the Cox Fortune. no longer a billionaire, seems like he has liquidated his share of Cox Media and taken about 500 million and basically just pumps money into leftist causes and possibly Palestinian resistance.

guy has a problematic past while simultaneously being personally at major protests such as the oil pipeline protests and Stop Cop City, getting fucked up by cops with everyone else. he got out of the U.S. and converted to Islam. so yeah, land of contrasts, like many people.

but yeah he seems interesting. and if you are on hexbear Mr. Chambers and don't want me to bring too much attention to you just DM me i guess lol

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[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Making a pseudo-cider from berries I foraged with a local native recipe. This'll either slap when the brew finishes in a couple days, or I'll get instant cyanide poisoning from a bunch of crushed seeds (I couldn't figure out how natives sifted out the seeds)

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How did portland get known for having anarchists and leftists, when Oregon had one of the most racist pasts?

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Getting a bit nervous before running my first game of Mothership this weekend... should be a lot of fun but will be new territory for me phoenix-sweat

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pleasantville (1998) is an Isekai.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Saw someone describe a dude doing a switch blunt stall on a quarter pipe and switch heel flipping out as a fakie blunt nollie heel out, which describes the same thing but is way more complicated sounding. It's like calling an Ollie a switch fake nollie

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[–] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

once upon a time, there was an ill-tempered sea bass who needed a new name that wasn't connected to reddit-logo, so she followed a trail of dustbunnies.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

found a really tasty trail mix with the right ratio of nuts and fruit and no salt.

at aldi so i guarantee it will be gone forever next time i make that long trip. oh well

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[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This video is frankly baffling to me, how do people get this fucking good at improv? It blows my mind.

Edit: okay, I got this one in the recommended videos and WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK he can't keep getting away with this... HOW DOES HE DO THAT

[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Ross is insane at what he does, which is musical improv, and the game changer episode where he and his Shakespearean improv troupe improv a play with prompts from Sam is completely insane at how good they are.

I imagine these comedians spend a lot of time focused on simply practicing a variety things that don't work. Also who knows how much gets left on the floor, maybe they do get prompts that they can't come up with some worthy of making it into the episode and we don't see that because they just want to showcase the good stuff. They do show some cut content that is completely amazing as well so there has to be some flubs as well.

Edit, I recall reading Lewis's black's autobiography and he states he spent years of doing terrible terrible standup before he eventually got even halfway decent enough to consider leaving the one open mic event he practiced at initially. So I assume there is a river of failed routines behind all improv and stand-up comedians and only by practicing away the bad stuff do they reach mostly good stuff we see.

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[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

HEXBEAR. LET'S WRITE A RAP

I'LL START

Sizzle sizzle my material's fissile

so i'm bound to blow up like a nuclear missile

i'm sharp as a thistle and toughened like gristle

I don't wait for the start so i don't hear no whistle

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[–] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Has anyone ever started a sentence with "Just so you know ..." and then not proceeded to be the world's most condescending asshole? I hate that phrase and the way smug assholes utilize it grrrr

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

a|♂> + b|♀>

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