Summary:
Jack Webster, host: What do you want? What are you going to do with it? What are you going to do to us if you win?
Neil Sterritt, Tribal Council president: Well Jack, the Gitxsan Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs want recognition of their title and their jurisdiction over the 21,000 square miles.
…Jack what were saying is that there is room for another level of government in Canada and that the model, the principle will be established by a land claim like ours, by the territory. If that principle is established it will apply to all people in that territory but it is established first by us.
…In 1915, our hereditary chiefs said that we want the opportunity to
define our relationship with the rest of Canada by having recognition of title
and jurisdiction and we can then start to define our relationship. We’re
not saying that it will be another country within Canada but we have to define
our place in Canada and that’s what we will do with through this process...