According
to Wet’suwet’en oral history, the Kweese War Trail is lined with the
buried bodies of warriors who lost their lives avenging the murder of
Chief Kweese’s wife and son.
to Wet’suwet’en oral history, the Kweese War Trail is lined with the
buried bodies of warriors who lost their lives avenging the murder of
Chief Kweese’s wife and son.
The trail
— a place where Wet’suwet’en youth can literally walk in the footsteps
of their ancestors — branches out to important ancestral sites spread
throughout the traditional territory of the nation’s five clans.
But now a
100-metre portion of the trail, a critical piece of history for the
Wet’suwet’en and the origin of some of their clan crests, and another
potential archaeological site lie buried under work camps and clearcuts
for the $6.6 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline, proposed to move fracked
gas from B.C.’s northeast to Kitimat to feed LNG Canada’s $18 billion
liquified natural gas (LNG) export facility and the province’s promise of a LNG export boom.