Three generations of ladies from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation struggle towards the enlargement of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in “We Are the Water.”
“Tsleil-Waututh means ‘people of the inlet.’ So our names and our identities are attached to the bodies of water that we reside on,” acknowledged Kaya George, a 23-year-old activist and voice of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in “We Are the Water.”
These ancestral lands and waters are at present referred to as British Columbia. They are additionally the house of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. Such industrial development from European settlers has traditionally devastated the land and, extra importantly, the water.
To change into “protectors of the water,” the Tsleil-Waututh Nation created the Sacred Trust Initiative to struggle towards the pipeline’s enlargement.
“This is not a story about victimhood, it’s not a story about despair, it’s a story about what humans can be …” stated photographer and storyteller Dani Khan De Silva in “We Are the Water.”
Runtime: 8 minutes
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