This interview was originally published in RY-JM issue no. 20, released in 2016. It was conducted by Rozh, a YCL-LJC member in Vancouver. Rozh interviewed Holly Bishu and Cicely-Belle Blain of Black Lives Matter – Vancouver, which was newly-established in 2016.
Terre Chartrand is a food sovereignty activist, seed keeper, artist and traditional beader who works with urban Indigenous youth in addressing erasure of Indigenous people in Southern Ontario.
This article was originally published in People’s Voice, Canada’s leading socialist newspaper.
Indigenous youth in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs occupied the front steps of the British Columbia Legislature building in the Provincial capital of Victoria, which is on unceded Coast Salish Lekwungan territory. Kolin Sutherland-Wilson was one of those Indigenous youths.
By Adrien Welsh (translated by Dave McKee)
