Traditional vs. Indian Act: Perry Bellegarde explains where he sits on Wet’suwet’en | APTN N2N

On this episode of Nation to Nation: The Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs don’t just oppose a liquefied natural gas pipeline through their traditional territory because of the environment and climate change.
Even if it looks that way to some.
At the root of it they’re challenging the system that allowed for the approval of Coastal GasLink’s 670-kilometre pipeline in the first place by pitting traditional ways, or laws, against the Indian Act and the chiefs and councils that are borne from the federal legislation.