Matt Simmons, Local Journalism Initiative
Hailey Wilson says sheâs learning about Gitxsan culture and responsibilities from her uncles and grandfather and plans to pass the knowledge on to her younger siblings. âIt makes me feel fulfilled, so I want that for them, too,â she says.
Image Credit: The Narwhal/Marty Clemens May 11, 2021 - 6:00 AM Clear plastic bags hang from small spigots plugged into birch trunks in a mixed stand of deciduous and coniferous trees on a hillside above the Kispiox River in northwest B.C. Denzel Sutherland-Wilson and his 19-year-old niece, Hailey Wilson, pour the birch water collected overnight from five trees into a 20-litre bucket, explaining they’ve been doing this every day for a couple of weeks.