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Older Than the Crown

"We are Sinixt and we are still here."

en 56m
Documentary
Older Than The Crown follows the trial of Sinixt tribal member Rick Desautel who in 2010 was charged with hunting as a non-resident and without a proper permit in Canada. Rick harvested an elk on the ancestral land of the Sinixt people in Vallican, British Columbia, Canada. To the Sinixt, hunting on ancestral land is an aboriginal right gifted to them by Creator. It’s a right that has legally been denied to the Sinixt people since 1956 when the Canadian government unjustly declared them extinct in Canada, despite the nearly 3,000 members existing on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington State. Now with the Desautel Hunting Case, the Sinixt people have a chance to not only bring light to their unjust extinction by the Canadian government but also to abolish the declaration completely.

Director

Derrick LaMere

Producer

Shelly Boyd

Producer

Meghan Francis

Executive Producer

Derrick LaMere

Associate Producer

Erin Joy Nash

Executive Producer

Francene J. Blythe-Lewis

Status

Released

Countries

    Companies

    • Vision Maker Media
    • a War Pony Pictures