Long Live Wolverine: Gustafsen Lake Anniversary Short Documentary

“In 1995, after a long history of peaceful attempts to have Secwepemc sovereignty respected, Indigenous people from the Secewpemc Nation and their supporters took a stand on sacred Sun Dance lands at Ts’Peten. The incident began after a local settler rancher, Lyle James, began demanding that the sacred Secwepemc Sun Dance Camp leave land to which he claimed ownership. Approximately 24 Sun Dancers set up camp to defend Ts’Peten. I was one of those people. Beginning in August 1995, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) surrounded the Ts’Peten defenders. Over the next month police, politicians, and media escalated the situation to make this siege the most expensive and largest domestic paramilitary operation in Canada’s history: armoured personnel carriers, .50 calibre machine guns, land mines, and an astonishing 77,000 rounds of ammunition were directed at us. In the course of the standoff, RCMP shot at unarmed people and at people in negotiated no-shoot zones. RCMP Superintend