Dene Chief Frank T'Seleie - Mackenzie Valley pipeline/Gas Project in 1975

[@agentskyhouse]

Reading “Like A Razor Slash” from “This Place” and having this to watch while reading is amazing. There’s more to the speech, and it gets even better. I suggest looking it up, it’s available online

[@Creashone]

I painted this man's living room decades ago. I knew so little then. Wishing you all good things.

[@coralmadge9691]

“We know our grandchildren will speak a language that is their heritage. We know they will share their wealth and not hoard it or keep it to themselves. We know they will look after their own people and respect them for their wisdom. We know that they will look after this land and protect it. That 500 years from now someone with skin my colour and moccasins on his feet will climb up the... and rust and look over the river and feel that he to has a place in the universe and he will thank the same spirit that I thank. ...have looked after his land well and he will be proud to be a dene. For this unborn child mr. Berger, that my nation will stop the pipeline. It is for the freedom of this land I’m willing to lay down my life. Mr Berger, I want to welcome your party to fort hood hope cause this is the first time in the history of my people that an important person from your nation has come to listen and learn from us. I believe you are an honest man. I believe that you are a just man. Mr. Berger, weather or not your business men or your government believes that a pipeline must go through our great valley let me tell you mr Berger. Let me tell your nation that this is dene land and the dene people intend to decide what happens on our land. Mr Berger there will be no pipeline. There will be no pipeline because we have plans for this land. There will be no pipeline because no no longer intend to allow our land and our future to be taken away from us and that we are destroyed to make someone else rich. There will be no pipeline because we the dene people are awaking to see the truth of this system of genocide that has been imposed on us and we will not go back to sleep. We do not say we are better or worse than the white man. We are proud of who we are. Proud to be dene and loyal to our nation but we are not saying we do not respect you and your ways. We are only asking now as we have asked you then to let us live our own lives, in our own way, in our own land without forever being threatened by invasion and extinction. We do not want to have to fight and struggle forever. Just to survive as a people. Obviously mr blorg, president of foot house and his friend mr hordic, president of gas arctic want to see us destroyed. Maybe mr blorg, that is because you do not know us or understand us, or maybe money has become so important to you that you are loosing your own humanity. Why are you trying to force us to be like you? You are directly responsible. You are the 20th century general Custer. You have come to destroy the dene nation. You’re coming with your troops to slaughter us and steal the land that is rightfully ours. You are coming to distort a people that have a history of 30 thousand years. Why? For twenty years of gas? Are you really that insane?”

[@knicksthejewel]

Thanks 😇 excellent speech

[@mzoe12]

This is an amazing speech by Frank T'seleie. Much respect to this good man.

[@THEOneAndOnlyDOCTORofHUMANICS]

Thank you for posting this!

[@abbeyoffice833]

PRAYING FOR SANITY ....sending you blessings ... may we all open our eyes ... ears ... hearts ...minds

[@Celandine2]

What a speech--if only this was the way "mainstream" leaders spoke. How can people in power pretend that there's nothing learn here?

[@ashvazquez3419]

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