The film opens not with the debate but with the land. Water laps against the shoreline as ʔayʔajuθəm (Ayajuthem) immersion teacher Koosen Pielle narrates place names: “Tisôsm means milky waters from the herring spawn. Xwéxwekwe, little sandy beach or Gibson’s Beach. Kwethayken, a rock at the mouth or Myrtle Rock. Xwôkwnes, still water. The orca whales stop by in this bay.” “Language is so intertwined with the landscape here,” Pielle continues. “…
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