Older Than The Crown

Indie Films Series

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, hunting on ancestral land is an aboriginal right gifted to them by Creator. A right that has legally been denied to them since 1956.

Older Than the Crown

56m 50s / TV-G

In 1956 the Canadian government unjustly declared the Sinixt people extinct in Canada. Cutting them off nearly 80% of their aboriginal territory. Now with the Desautel Hunting Case, the Sinixt people have a chance to not only bring light to their unjust extinction, but also abolish the declaration completely.

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