Chickadee Richard (second from left) – What happens if the pipeline is completed? “It’s not going to happen. Im not putting it out there because I don’t believe it’s going to happen. I believe in the people and what they’re doing here.” Is this resistance movement something that can move to another fossil fuel fight? “All over. All over the world. I think this is part of the awakening of non-indigenous people and I really believe that there’s a spiritual need that they don’t have and knowing the way that we know our homelands, intimately, because they’re settlers. They’ll never understand the relationship we have with our lands, so I believe that this movement is awakening their spirit. They’re here as helpers, they’re here as settlers, so it’s time that they give back that reciprocity, because our lands have sustained them and our lands have sustained us for thousands of years.” What affect will Donald Trump’s election have on you? “Not us. We don’t believe in this electoral leaderships. We don’t believe in chief and councils. We have our own leaderships, our traditional leaderships. If you feed into that system, you give it power, so I don’t believe in Trump, I don’t believe in Justin Trudeau, I don’t believe in that kind of leadership. This is where we were placed on this land. This is our homeland. The homeland gives us that power. We were Anishinabe before Canada, the Lakota were Lakota before the USA. The land connects us as indigenous people.“