One hundred eighty-two years ago, on October 9th, 1840, some 242 men, women and children set out on Canoes down the Erie Canal to Buffalo. Stepping off a Ferry in Port Stanley, they started to walk to their newly purchased land.
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Old News: Act Threatens Extinction Of Indian People?
The article originally appeared in the Ottawa Citizen in 1951. A three-man delegation from the Six Nation Indian reservation near Brantford warned here yesterday that the passage of the Indian Act in its present revised form would threaten the Indian people with extinction In two years. They said If the act became law, the Indians…
U. S. May Revive Iroquois Plan of Confederacy
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Forbidden Fruit: Residential School Stories
It was just a cruel time; I just remember how bad the food was, being hungry and just being a little kid, I was strong enough to rebel, and that’s what I did; it was well worth the punishment.
Proposing a Land Surrender
The Lieutenant Governor has directed me to inform the deputations of chiefs from the Grand River that he has maturely considered their speech to him and particularly that important part of it which relates to the occupation of their lands by white people without authority.