Harriet Nahanee

Harriet was sentenced to two weeks in a provincial jail in January 2007 for criminal contempt of court for her part in the Sea-to-Sky Highway expansion protest at Eagleridge Bluffs.

[3] She was then hospitalized with pneumonia a week after her release from the jail, at which time doctors discovered she had lung cancer.

She died of pneumonia and complications at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver on February 24, 2007, one month after her original sentencing.

[3] An independent public inquiry into her death was called for in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia on March 5.

What I'd like to see is our five-year-olds being taught their language, their songs, their games, their spirituality, their Indian, eh, their Indian-ness.