Occupiers spend the day investigating a neighboring island, finding several culturally modified trees (CMT) that were altered past generations of Tsimshians. All photos courtesy the author.
Members of the Lelu Island Occupations confront two boatloads of Surveyors. All three boats held spotlights up high, attempting to gain the visual advantage.
Hereditary chief Sm'oogyet Yahaan, or Donald Wesley Sr., of the Gitwilgyoots tribe of the Lax Kw'alaams, a Tsimshian Nation. Lax Kw'alaams is seeking legal title to the island.
An occupier taking a breather on the edge of camp.
Matthew Danes warms up in a sleeping tent after patrolling on the water.
Occupiers Mathew Danes, Lyle Donald Jr., Kendal Hughes, and Warren Tait have a smoke in one of the first structures to be built on the island. The running joke in camp is that they are the first Tsimshian people to ever build a teepee in their village.
A PNW LNG barge can be seen miles out from the island. The buoys are set up by surveyors and now cut across the water for several hundred meters.
Warren Tait grabs a neighboring boat to stabilize the smaller one so that passengers can transfer.
James Ryan, a Lax Kw'alaams occupier, enjoys the morning sun with a local resident. Dozens of eagles can be seen in a single day throughout the area.