Hetxw’ms Gyetxw spent his childhood on Gitxsan territory in the Northwest Interior of British Columbia, and he’s seen the dramatic ways climate change has altered the land where he grew up. The river he used to skate on no longer freezes over. The glaciers he remembers have disappeared.
“We’ve watched the world change,” Hetxw’ms Gyetxw said in an interview. “I’m going to be 40 this year, but in my lifetime I have watched our land change completely.”
Hetxw’ms Gyetxw is Gitxsan, a matrilineal society which doesn’t use last names. He goes by his full traditional name.
Now living in Winnipeg with his family, Hetxw’ms Gyetxw has used his first-hand experience to
