Caleb Behn and the Coming Resource Conflict on Indigenous Lands in BC

Caleb Behn on Indigenous Law, Resource Conflict in NorthEast BC

by Damien Gillis - The Canadian.org

Watch this presentation by Caleb Behn, a young, First Nations lawyer-in-the-making from Treaty 8 territory in northeast BC - one of the most heavily industrialized places on earth. The subject of the forthcoming documentary film Fractured Land, Behn discusses the blending of indigenous and colonial law to address the conflict arising from intense resource development, such and natural gas fracking, hydroelectric dams, logging, mining, and industrial roads that permeate his ancestral lands and threaten his family's traditional way of life. The one-hour presentation - shown here in three parts - was co-hosted at the Vancouver Public Library on February 28 by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, Amnesty International and the Hul'qumi'numTreaty Group. Behn, who is Dunne Za/Cree on his mother's side and Eh-Cho Dene on his father's, recently completed law school through UVic and is now pursuing his articles at Ratcliff & Company in Vancouver.
 

 

Part 1

Damien Gillis is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker with a focus on environmental and social justice issues - especially relating to water, energy, and saving Canada's wild salmon.