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#12 Frontlines Are Everywhere | Sleydo’ Molly Wickham and Jennifer Wickham, Protecting the YINTAH for Future Generations

featuring Sleydo’ Molly Wickham and Jennifer Wickham (Gidimt’en Clan, Wet’suwet’en)

Sleydo’ Molly Wickham and Jennifer Wickham are on the frontlines of Wet’suwet’en land defence. They joined Jeff Ganohalidoh Corntassel for the season 1 finale of Frontlines Are Everywhere to discuss topics including the criminalization of Indigenous land defenders, building resilient communities on the frontlines, and their film YINTAH (2024), a documentary covering a decade of Wet’suwet’en resistance.

Sleydo’ Molly Wickham is a wing chief of the Cas Yikh people of the Gidimt’en clan. Molly is actively involved in land defense and reoccupation of traditional territories. She previously worked as Governance Director at the Office of the Wet’suwet’en.

Jennifer Wickham is a Gidimt’en clan member of the Wet’suwet’en people. Jennifer has been the Media Coordinator for Gidimt’en Checkpoint since 2018 and is co-director and producer of “YINTAH.”

UPDATE: After this interview took place, a judge ruled that Sleydo’ Molly Wickham and two land defenders arrested during the 2021 raid of Wet’suwet’en land defence camp were targets of racism, but that their convictions of contempt for court would stand–with reduced sentences. Sentencing decisions for all three land defenders will take place in the fall of 2025.

#12 Frontlines Are Everywhere | Sleydo’ Molly Wickham and Jennifer Wickham, Protecting the YINTAH for Future Generations

#10 Frontlines Are Everywhere | Janelle Niles, Decolonizing…One Joke at a Time

featuring Janelle Niles (Sipekne’katik Nation, Black – Mi’kmaq)

In this episode, Janelle and Jeff talk about sharing decolonial education through comedy, tackling dark topics with humour, comedy inspirations, and Janelle’s work bringing Indigenous comedians together for the Got Land Indigenous Comedy Show. 
Janelle Niles is a two-spirit Black – Mi’kmaq woman from Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia. She is a stand-up comedian, emcee, content creator, TV Personality, and creator & producer of Got Land Comedy – Indigenous Comedy Show.

#10 Frontlines Are Everywhere | Janelle Niles, Decolonizing...One Joke at a Time

#8 Frontlines Are Everywhere — Angela Grier, On the Frontlines of Mental Health

featuring Angela Grier (Piikani, Blackfoot)

In this episode, Jeff and Angela discuss the crisis of mental health in Indigenous communities, the role of Buffalo Treaty in community healing, the power of Indigenous resilience, emotions as the language of the spirit, and ways communities are breaking through intergenerational trauma.

Angela Grier (M.Ed) is a Registered Provisional Psychologist from the Piikani First Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Her spiritual name is Piiohksoopanskii (Singing Loudly Far Away). For over 25 years, she has been working and supporting First Nation/Indigenous peoples and communities through direct and systemic experience including Indigenous psychology and counselling, Indigenous and child/youth rights advocacy, adult education/post-secondary, elected leadership, extensive executive experience, non-profit, public administration and Blackfoot ways of knowing.

Listen to Episode #8 on YouTube.

#8 Frontlines Are Everywhere — Angela Grier, On the Frontlines of Mental Health