The eight are being tried in two separate trials for offences alleged to have occurred on Oct. 15 and Oct. 17. Susan Bibbings, Miranda Dick, Heather Lamoureux and Laura Zadorozny will be tried Aug. 3 to Aug. 6 while Romily Cavanaugh, Henry Sauls (also known as Secwépemc hereditary Chief Sawses), April Thomas and Jocelyn Pierre are scheduled to be in court from Aug. 9 to Aug. 13. Pierre, Thomas, Sauls and Cavanaugh are charged in connection with a protest that occurred during work hours at a Trans Mountain construction site on Oct. 15. Video taken by members of the Secwépemc Unity Camp showed who appeared to be Pierre and Thomas atop an excavator on the south side of Mission Flats Road just west of Domtar, refusing to leave.