honor that woman nation to honor the life givers i'd like to ask my sisters and my sisters to come forward and we are going to sing an honor song this is our women's wear your song so if you know the women's wear your song it's a so let's be clear there are many fossil fuel threats to the beautiful sailor sea right and they're all valid and i just want to take two minutes to clarify why this term kinda mortgage because it's clear the me that isn't really understood down here in our community ok so what about to tell you this is factual it may seem unbelievable but it's actually true there was a bankrupt attorney who went to work for a company called enron his name is richard kinda ok richard tkinter left at the right time because his buddies ended up in jail he bought the enron oil operations the enron oil operations or what's called the kindle or mortgage all right and in the process of purchasing those oil operations they bought a pipeline that goes from alberta down to the berard inlet and they are proposing to triple the volume of the tar sands oil to bring it down into that in lit into tankers three times the size of exxon about these that would flow across the waters we're talking about going from four sailings a month to thirty five sailings a month now the problem is the oil is so thick that to get it to move through the pipes they have to put in a solution and that solution is proprietary and they will disclose what's in it you look at the city of vancouver who said no ways it's going to happen they said three claims we don't have enough information to play and we don't have the response capability and we don't have the money to afford this we're talking about going through the you add up all the other threats not as bad as that one now could pick our poison right there's lots of reasons for us to stand up and stop this idea of a fossil fuel corridor here but that's what's going on let's be clear i think jones was in that so far it's been close to a trillion dollars of your taxpayers money given to fossil fuel companies look at all the homeless that we have and you know it's crazy that they get to come in and by the media we see that they come in they buy the politicians i don't know if you've heard or seen on online are because we have to see online because there's media blackouts were some of the disasters that come around all over the world but who would think that there's twenty spills a day every every position every job every every program that supplemented by by economic development education social service employment training all way from prenatal to babies to to the elders everybody we try to take care of including you know we do some of the transmitter programs for all the reverse and streams in our territory and you know we don't tag the salmon or the pacific in the fisherman kitchen see that's it to slip into sap and put it back we our actions are for everybody there for everybody including men including everybody that animals everything so in the end then you look at this government that we have the tail and pound that burst and up in british columbia bill charged something like five to ten thousand dollars a plate and everybody donated to maureen raised millions of dollars those that was the owner of the tailing pond those are all owner of that mine so so it's easy to understand why come here and drink it so real right you come here and drink it you yeah exactly it's bring it in the show them but they hide it they're good kind of morgan he still has a big mention in texas but anyway i mussy i'm i'm here with the three generations when i was a little girl with drink from the stream that come through near the tracks now as are our sacred water we can no longer drink from that water because the spring is gone they say they rearranged the highway they importing it comes right through olympia port so they load the trains it comes right through next to our drinking water  bird daughter examiner they've gone with me to public hearings against coal and oil who have gone to i started this journey and tell you the story started t we have natural resources who has a crew of ten we have we have the culture center we have a long house right there next to the tracks and this is this  all sacred to us now we have we have so much more than just our culture we have the water the land the animals the birds the streams and they all agreed and they said but you've got a problem because we're only half the chiefs you have to tell the rest so i can airplanes recall water taxis and we got in well he got up at the go canoe one way up river in the grandmother once told me something that was so so important and she asked me she said talk about your she said what is the more sacred ceremony of all ceremonies and this is going to make every day's a very counting all these different ceremonies  leadership here in the northwest it's just amazing to a bit here and eighteen seventy three with bertie wayfarer for this was built in to see where the a great first nations tribes were at that time tribes have awakened and that's why i always say also owner of canada i was going to say i give my profound heartfelt thanksgiving to our incredible prime minister stephen harper because in his total unawareness he's awaiting wakened a sleeping spiritual giant and this sleeping spiritual giants waking everywhere and recognizing that these boundaries that separate us as human family these boundaries that separate us from our mother earth and from a vision of the future in which all our children can enjoy the beauty of this world we live in then we know that time is come now as prophesied as promised and he said say this is no longer today or prophecies this is that they are the fulfillment of those prophecies and those prophecies promise without question that after a long spiritual winter time we've come together in that press and unified action and it's totally the world that had the senator to the place we could find it today and so that's what i see us here for and i might just want to briefly because there are so many wonderful speakers here i want to listen and learn they say i always say seek to understand before seeking to be understood so it's so important that we listen to one another because each one of us again is a sacred being and so each one of us have these sacred things to say but i don't want to go back and this for a moment to connect  treaty this being signed on the morning of the twenty second of september this is really in a story occasion it is  human manatee all of human beings and only here everybody can celebrate and i want to take you back to what happened on january twenty five twenty thirteen when back on the high eyes in this dream all of a sudden this door opened and here we're standing all these elders from the past summer dressed in their traditional clothing and summer dress back at the turn of the century in one thousand nine hundred six you know  suits and ties and she looked at him and they were so overwhelming at their in their intensity spiritual jency she closed her eyes and she turned the other way the same thing happened she turned away speak about what's happening over tar sands it really is a tragedy of the menses proportions something unless you've been there there's no way to encompass it sitting here in the beauty recipient and it's killing human beings it's killing the earth it's killing that the only way to stop this was to cut off any way for it to deliver what was inside it slowly kind of off and so one of the primary threats was the keystone x l and what happened women's feet began looking into the treaties she found that the first written treaty that existed in the united states by the way there was many treats prior to the coming of other relatives here we all live here together in relative peace and harmony because of these agreements we had a teacher you know and when somebody's got a line it is a sense of stories about how that was tak island and of course you see them in dancing with walls that kind of play that that guy so they're not all that gets they were simply human beings that didn't know it was happening because the south east the west and north were being shut against it one time over fifty thousand relatives there reduced by the way down the end down to about seven hundred and so finally at the urging of the united states government and the sunk us who were kind of allies in both sides a decision was made between the aha to want to close that's one of the seven great causal fires of the race a nation that there should be and so this was signed and on the twenty fifth of january twenty thirty and joined not only upon the nation you have to last but in the ceremonies that the yukon it was taken to los angeles the largest planet rally in history there and signed by other nations and tribes there and it was take this labor tooth where others came and joined in signed there as a slave to his nation about protecting the sacredness of this silly sea from whatever it is destroying that beauty that we can hear speak of spoken about of how it truly is and was but there's another dimension to it i'm go this incredible territory that we live in here with the leadership and i want to say that the reason why this works so well of bits of columbia when we were asked four years ago i was asked if i would help out i said well you know i'm i'm are you have let's say you have your can of worms you're you're going to see for john john has his can of worms and i don't want to get in john's can of worms right right and so it's about respecting one of the tribes but and that they have been waiting for many many years to work together with other human beings who want to see this saying straight up as one in the other is there needs to be a spiritual foundation leadership we've seen from the silly frustrations we've come to this point so it's not just about protecting its bottom story and that's what i just want to put the throw aside here i think looking at this beautiful sunlight we know