When Indigenous Owners Become the Target – Resource Works

March 3, 2026

The attack on Gitxsan Development Corporation vehicles isn’t an isolated incident — it’s the logical endpoint of a campaign that has learned to treat Indigenous economic actors as infrastructure targets

On Monday, August 18, 2025, shortly before employees arrived for work, someone entered the Gitxsan Development Corporation parking lot in New Hazelton and placed an unknown incendiary device against the tires of four company vehicles. RCMP surveillance footage captured the act: a single figure, the object placed, and then immediate ignition. Four vehicles were destroyed. Six other Gitxsan Development Corp vehicles, as well as several personal vehicles in the same lot, were left untouched — the targeting was precise. New Hazelton RCMP confirmed the incident the following day.

Not pipeline company vehicles. Not contractor equipment. Vehicles belonging to an Indigenous-owned business.