Around 100 students and allies of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs participated in a march from the University of Windsor to the Supreme Court downtown Wednesday afternoon.
The crowd participated in conjunction with a national student walkout to stand up against the Canadian government and the construction of a pipeline on unceded lands.
Professor Sylvia McAdam said it's important for students to scrutinize Canadian laws pertaining to land rights.
"I would like Canada to be held accountable and the British Monarchy to be held accountable to the treaties and unceded, unsurrendered lands of Indigenous peoples. It's a legitimate question when Indigenous people ask Canada 'where is your title?'" said McAdam. "To this day Canada has not been able to prove its title to these lands all across Canada."
Over the weekend, the federal government and the British Columbia provincial government reached a draft agreement with the Wet'suwet'en on rights and title to the land. The agreement will be reviewed by the Wet’suwet’en members through Wet’suwet’en governance protocols for ratification.
"Until that agreement is made and the hereditary chiefs have made the call, we're going to keep marching. As far as I know up until this point they have made the call for solidarity across the country and so we're responding," said David Pitawanakwat, a law student at the University of Windsor and a member of the Shkawbewisag Student Law Society.
