Gitxsan

Anyone with information about her murder is asked to call the Smithers RCMP at 250-847-3233.

Cynthia Martin was 50 years old and a member of the Gitxsan Nation.

She had recently moved to be closer to her family.

Everyone is in wonderful spirits.

That's where we lived, where I grew up.

It's a cold spring day in Kispiox, a Gitxsan village nearly 800 kilometers northeast of Vancouver.

The snow has melted and the forest ground is brown and dry as Willie shows me around.

Yeah, so this village used to be way smaller than this.

Willie and some of the others said, what do we do now? And I said, well, that's up to you.

And they said, well, we want to sue.

Peter Grant is well-known in Gitxsan territory.

He was the lawyer for the hereditary chiefs in the landmark Delgamukh title case.

He was arrested, and this time, he would not be released.

Ramona Lisa Wilson was 16 years old and a member of the Gitxsan Nation.

She was a happy-go-lucky, bubbly young woman who people enjoyed being around.

She was one of those people who had a contagious smile.

to resist getting kind of putting the brakes on things because of some of these campaigns.

And I think it's especially important for First Nations to see what nations like Haisla and what, you know, the Gitxsan and five others who have just done, what the nations, the upstream who are now major participants, what they've been able to do by saying yes, Even though it's not easy to work through details, saying yes and being part of the success of these things has created real benefits.

And it's worth it.

And they don't need to necessarily buy into Leonardo DiCaprio for lying into their community and saying, hey, this is bad.