Freda Huson, Chief Howilhkat of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation in Canada, is an Indigenous rights activist for the Wet'suwet'en people. Even as private companies and the Canadian government collude to force the construction of an oil pipeline through their sovereign territory and under their waterways, Freda was kind enough to engage in a brief conversation about the struggle she is currently leading with her people to protect their ancestral homelands and their way of life, and how it connects to the inequity we face in our own neck of the woods.