Film

Older Than the Crown

2022 · 56m · Documentary

We are Sinixt and we are still here.

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 in Vallican, British Columbia, Canada. To the Sinixt, hunting on ancestral land is an aboriginal right gifted to them by Creator. It’s a right that has legally been denied to the Sinixt people since 1956 when the Canadian government unjustly declared them extinct in Canada, despite the nearly 3,000 members existing on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington State. Now with the Desautel Hunting Case, the Sinixt people have a chance to not only bring light to their unjust extinction by the Canadian government but also to abolish the declaration completely.

• Derrick LaMereDirector · Executive Producer · Editor
• Meghan FrancisProducer
• Shelly BoydProducer
• Francene J. Blythe-LewisExecutive Producer

Release date

November 5, 2022

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

56m

Genres

Documentary