'When we talk about the Big House we're talking about all things Kwakwaka'wakw in an instant'
"There's not an Indigenous person that's not thinking about this issue right now."Jody Wilson-Raybould speaks with the media after appearing in front of the Justice committee in Ottawa.
Wilson-Raybould's bombshell testimony Wednesday centred on statements that the prime minister's office employed"veiled threats" to pressure her to allow SNC-Lavalin to escape prosecution. Chief Robert Joseph, a fellow member of the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation, says Wilson-Raybould's comments have"ignited" an important discussion that he believes will resonate beyond committee hearings.
It's very, very important, very sacred, it's the place where we come from and it shows our connections to our origins."When we talk about the Big House we're talking about all things Kwakwaka'wakw in an instant," he says."All of them have genesis stories and from that genesis story we talk about all of the history ... we talk about the laws that evolve from that genesis and we talk about the spirituality that is inherent in all of the genesis.
Hemphill says she was very close to Wilson-Raybould's grandmother, who bestowed the name, and says it would have been chosen after careful consideration with the chief, the matriarchs and her parents.
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