“We want to get the whole of Rivers Inlet, from Quay to the land—Oweekeno Lake. The white men wants to take all our land and we are in the position of men who have been pushed half way to the water off our land, and it would not take much to push us off the land into the deep water altogether. Sometimes I go round in the timber and see a post; sometimes we get inside the post. And then they come and take our logs. I think that all this is our land and we should not be afraid to take logs anywhere. In the old time the Lord put our fathers here among these mountains and trees. He also put the Salmon there for their food. Sometimes they need to skin the bark off the hemlock trees and eat it for food. Wherever these Government posts are now we cannot work, and that is not good according to our mind. We are very despairing. We have heard that the Government will take land and sell it, but we don’t want to sell our land here, but we would like a yearly rental for it. All these canneries round here should pay us a rental for the use of the land. The canneries come here and we cannot understand how they came. If the Government sell this land to the canneries—did the Government sell this land to the canneries—that is what we want, know? All this land is ours and we want to reserve it for our children.”