#mississaugas

[rvexillology]

The five First Nations flags outside of Toronto City Hall: Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, Six Nations, Huron-Wendat, Métis, and Inuit

from /r/vexillology Top comment: Interesting - any idea why these five flags in particular, since other FN groups also have flags? (Also Metis and Inuit are technically not FN)

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE on June 10th 2021

Revolution of the Heart Ceremonial Action

We understand that Katarokwi-Kingston sits within the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Algonquin and Mississauga. Indigenous People have lived and traversed this area since time immemorial and have enduring relationships to the land. Prompted by the recent unveiling of the mass grave of 215 Indigenous children at the former location of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, we have decided to hold space for our community and relations to come together for mourning, healing, and reclamation.

Indigenous community members and non-Indigenous community members will be holding a sacred fire and land-based ceremony at City Park that will commence on Thursday, June 10th, at 6:00 pm. We demand the John A. Macdonald statue be removed and replaced with a monument to residential school survivors and victims that better represents and honours the truth of the colonial violence Indigenous peoples have suffered and continue to suffer. We invite the community to join us in holding this space for all our relations. All are welcome.

Abenaki Wliwini, a local Indigenous resident says, “Reconciliation is an act that comprises of acknowledgement, accountability and reparations. We will never begin to heal without those components. Reconciliation requires healing and mutual respect”.  Susan, an Indigenous participant, says, “Macdonald must come down. He was not a builder. He was a destroyer. Your Canada was built on our backs. We want a statue that reflects this man’s genocidal actions”.

Kingston is haunted by the legacy and ongoing reality of settler colonialism. It is unkind and cruel to celebrate a genocidal historical figure or to mock the painful legacy and impacts of colonization on Indigenous people that continues in our present moment. We live in a world built on the brutality of the past and that replicates this violence in new and different ways. We have only to turn on the News to see this reality. We need to ask ourselves if we want to continue celebrating mass murderers and, yes, even figures of the past. We don't need a statue of John A. Macdonald in the middle of a city park to remember he was instrumental in starving thousands of Indigenous people and creating Indian Residential Schools. No longer celebrating his legacy, which is tainted by the death and blood of Indigenous people, and others who have been dispossessed and disenfranchised by the state, is not about erasing history. We remember exactly what he did. With or without a statue. If we want a more ethical, just community then we need to re-envision how we relate to each other. This is not about rewriting the past but about recognizing the real brutality of the past and present and imagining a collective future that honours dignity and pays respect to Indigenous peoples, Black folks, people of colour, poor people and all other oppressed communities.

Concerned locals call on the community and City of Kingston to remove the John A Macdonald statue out of respect for the unmarked graves of Indigenous children all over Canada in former Indian Residential School sites. We invite our community to re-imagine what a just collective future for Katarokwi-Kingston can be. One first step in this work is removing the John A Macdonald statue and replacing it with a monument to genocide on these lands.

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"Mississauga Indians Do Not Want The Vote," The Ontario (Belleville). November 8, 1917. Page 07. --- Some members of the Mississauga Indians, who have reserves at Chemong, Rice Lake and Scugog, emphatically state that they do not want the right to vote - at least not for the present. The Government owes them very considerable sums for boundary rights, islands, and other properties in the province, and they believe that if they received the franchise now they would have to surrender these financial claims, and they would lose this money, which has been owed to them for a long time. For the present they are content to enjoy the privileges granted them by treaty.

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“Fine of $200 or Jail Reduced to $10 Fine,” The Ontarian (Belleville). June 26, 1919. Page 11. --- Cobourg, June 21. - The Provincial License Board, acting in conjunction with the Attorney-General Department, after investigating the case of Smith Comego, an Indian of the Alderville reservation, who was wounded in the war and recently convicted by Police Magistrate Floyd for breach of the O.T.A. and fined $200 and costs or six months in goal, have reduced the fine to $10. This action on the part of the honorable I. B. Lucas, K.C., M.P.P., Attorney General, and the Ontario Cabinet, will meet with general approval, not only by Cobourg people familiar with the circumstances but by Comego’s Indian compatriots and the G.W.V.A., of which he is a member, and who, with commendable zeal, made strong representations in support of the application sent to Toronto by Mr. F. M. Field, K.C., counsel for Private Comego. It is expected that the order-in-council will go through today and the prisoner’s release be brought about today.

[abitmoredetail]

Chechalk Lane #toronto #chechalklane #churchandwellesley #firstnations #mississaugas (at Church and Wellesley)

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Getting Names Straight...

Iroquoians: one of two large language families in North Culture area. Includes the Ontario Iroquoians, the Haudenosaunee, and some groups who lived on the Atlantic coast as far as the Carolinas. Iroquoians were mainly horticulturalists. 

Ontario Iroquoians: the Iroquoian people who lived north of Lake Ontario and were not part of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) but bitter enemies with them. 

Iroquois: the League of five nations that originally formed the Haudenosaunee confederacy, centered in upper New York state. These include: Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, and Onondaga. The Tuscaroras from the Carolinas later joined the League to form the Sixth Nation.

Algonkian: the second largest language family to which the Ojibwa peoples (known as Chippewa in the US) belonged (included the Mississaugas). Algonkians were mainly nomadic hunter-gatherers, due to their traditional lands being on the Canadian shield where sustainable horticulture is impossible due to insufficient frost-free days.