Part of the thesis addresses the two-year Berger Commission that looked at the potential impacts of two proposed pipelines in the Mackenzie Valley in the mid-70s.
Pokiak compiled the information she gathered in her master's thesis, in which she concluded that industry and governments should "stop what they're doing and really consider those Indigenous groups who are making efforts to rebuild sovereignty and rebuild their nations within their own values and future-making efforts." History as an example She sought their perspectives on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, whether the Inuvialuit land claim agreement was working the way it had been envisioned, and on how climate change had affected the region in the past 40 years. She went home to Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, and interviewed 18 elders, harvesters and land claim negotiators, including her uncle Randall. She also wondered how similar dynamics played out in relation to the climate crisis. She decided to study how the lack of consultation with Indigenous groups affected their well-being. "It really made me want to address how those situations were playing out." Pokiak, who was doing her master's degree in anthropology at the University of Victoria at the time, said she thought industry and governments were trying to develop on Indigenous lands "without really meaningfully consulting with those Indigenous groups," she said. When Letitia Pokiak was following the developments in 20 on the Wet'suwet'en and Unist'ot'en territories in B.C., and with the Dakota Access Pipeline in the United States, she felt the Indigenous groups were being marginalized on their territories.īoth areas were sites of major conflicts between First Nations and energy companies and governments.
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