Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance1993

Ellen Gabriel:
At about 5:15 that's when the tilten trucks rolled in and the S.W.A.T. team came out. There was three of us that just looked at each other... and one of the women said 'Holy sh*t they're here.' Our instincts kicked in and we said the women have to go to the front, because it's our obligation to do that, to protect the land, to protect our Mother. And I can remember looking at the faces of the S.W.A.T. team and they were all scared. They were like young babies who had never met something so strong; who had never met a spirit, because we were fighting something without a spirit. There was no thought to it; they were like robots.