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“Sometimes you want to be among your own. We’re working things out. I call this ‘irreconcilable spaces of Indigeneity’… You’re not always explaining everything. You’re getting on with it.” —David Garneau

“Over the last 10 years First Nations in the Great Bear Rainforest and Haida Gwaii have created a road-map for how we can sustain the most ecologically significant places on the planet…” — Huux Percy Crosby of the Haida Nation

“Any activity in our territory without our consent is cultural genocide. Because, you know what? We are Cree. We're not separate and apart from the land.” — Constance Lake First Nation Chief Ramona Sutherland

“The idea with the book is to be an anti-racist text that preserves stories and provides that opportunity in that space for others to hear the perspectives and the experiences that aren't our own.” — author Ian Kennedy

“Feeling so distant from your own culture and identity is such a normal thing for Indigenous people to go through and is something that I struggle with everyday.” — Emily Granville

“One hundred per cent of the Skeena sockeye run passes through that terminal [site], and it is absolutely critical to the Wet’suwet’en. So if we don’t speak up for the salmon – our rights – who will?” ~ John Ridsdale (Na’moks), clan chief of Tsayu clan of Wet’suwet’en

“It is striking how many fires, how many floods, how many earthquakes we have had in Alberta. How many air quality warnings we have had. How many water advisories we have had. How many heat wave records we have had.” — Jesse Cardinal, executive director with Keepers of the Water