Canada: Wetsuweten activists vow to continue pipeline fight after arrests

• Indigenous groups fighting construction of 670km gas pipeline
• Chiefs say they never ceded land and thus still control it

Indigenous activists in Canada have vowed to continue their fight against a multibillion-dollar pipeline project across their traditional territory after three female leaders were arrested by police early on Monday.

Freda Huson, Brenda Michell and Karla Tait were among seven people detained when Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers - backed by helicopters, heavy machinery and dogs - moved in on the remote camp in north-western British Columbia.