Garden River is looking to reclaim land east of Sault Ste. Marie.
“It’s indescribable what it means to me,’ she said. ”My heart is just heavy right now, but my heart is full, very full.“
Oronhyatekha died in 1907 and his estate eventually donated Chief Shingwaukonse’s items to the museum, which has had them since they opened in 1914. But it has been a difficult few days in Toronto for the band members of Garden River, which is located near Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.Article content In 1850, the Crown and Garden River signed the Robinson Huron Treaty. That treaty was prompted by Chief Shingwaukonse’s occupation of a mine in protest of the Crown encroachment on its territory.
But the Crown pressured a vulnerable population to sign that treaty, the claim said, which meant losing 70 per cent of its territory.Article contentThe Crown sold off some of that land to farmers and developers, the claim said.
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