SHARES Gitxsan Elder Shubert Gunanoot has been keeping watch over a gate installed by his house group, Wilp Git’luuhl’um’hetxwit, to control access to the territory.
Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.
On a remote forestry road in northern B.C., a family keeps vigil. For the past month, members of Wilp Git’luuhl’um’hetxwit, a house group of the Gitxsan Nation, have spent day and night watching over a gate that they installed here in early May. Its purpose is to control access to their
Lax’yip, or territory, and ensure any logging that happens there is done with consent from the house group.