Hup-Wil-Lax-A (Kirby Muldoe) is of Tsimsian and Gitxsan descent, works for SkeenaWild Conservation Trust and lives at the confluence of the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers. He is very passionate about sharing information about the true history of what is now known as Canada, the Indian Residential Schools, the impacts of colonialism, racism, oppression and genocide. Hup-Wil-Lax-A is also an advocate for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) calls to action and knowing the land you now occupy, the history, culture, social structure and values of the first peoples of that land.