Homeland Journey

society, culture · EN-US

Homeland Journey is a documentary interview series from Resource Works that travels into the territories of Indigenous nations across western Canada to let their own leaders tell their own stories. Each episode is a sit-down conversation, filmed on the land it's about, with hereditary chiefs, elected leaders, and community members who are working to revive their languages and cultures while building real economic self-determination for their people — through forestry, energy, mining, and other resource partnerships that are made on their own terms. Homeland Journey doesn't come at these conversations as outsiders explaining a community from a distance. It sits down, listens, and lets the people who carry the names, the laws, and the responsibility for their territories speak for themselves — about governance and hereditary law, about the land and what it means to them, about the hard history that got their nations here, and about what self-determination looks like when i