Help Us Buy a Wendat Canoe
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The Taiaiako’n Historical Preservation Society (THPS) is very happily purchasing a canoe made in the early 1960’s by the Bastien Brothers of Wendake (The Huron Wendat Nation Village). It is a “Big Chief” Canoe; a lovely red sixteen footer, well made with cedar stripping and a heart shaped deck. This beautiful Canoe was found online by Sam Charal (Wendat, Cree), tižamęh Sam! As THPS members who each have Wendat ancestry, we feel it would be deeply meaningful and wonderful to see this beautiful vessel in the waters of High Park, Lake Ontario and its tributaries (eg. Niwa'ah onega'haih'ih (Mohawk, colonial name: Humber), Wonscontonach and Gichi-ziibiinh Rivers (Anishinaabemowin, colonial names Don and Rouge rivers). This canoe will mark the historical and current presence of the Wendat Peoples in Ontario and bring attention to our story as Indigenous peoples reliant on waterways for trade and other sustaining lifeways. THPS will utilize this beautiful canoe to offer Teachings From the Shoreline in all of our various cultural programming streams regarding medicines, wetlands, Indigenous histories, Right Relations with Mother Earth, ceremony, treaty knowledges, land, water protection, earthwork and we will offer these teachings, in creative and unifying ways!
These funds will help to purchase and keep the canoe in good repair and well stored, with appropriate protections and maintenance. We look forward to seeing our friends from all localities and community members come to the shoreline to share the beauty of this wonderful heritage canoe!
About
Taiaiako’n Historical Preservation Society is an Onkwehonwe led group that has worked to protect sacred sites in High Park where there are 57 ancient Onkwehonwe sites of spiritual significance as well as the ancient Mohawk-Seneca town site of Taiaiako’n (village at the crossing), located in current day Baby Point and Thunderbird Mound just below, in Magwood Park. THPS has been working with the Six Nations who continue to hold a custodial role in maintaining the mounds and their connection with the Ancestors for future generations.
Our Elders are Donna Powless, Snipe Clan; Cayuga of Six Nations and Catherine Coming Day Tammaro, Spotted (Little) Turtle Clan; Wyandot of Anderdon Nation/Wendat Confederacy ~ artist/musician, mentor. Also in THPS is Joce Two-Crows Tremblay an oshkimaadziig/Great Lakes métis, Beaver Clan; an Onon:wat/Nizh-Manidoo/2S community earthworker, artist and land-based cultural Knowledge~fire~seed Keeper and Kim Jackson, settler Accomplice of Scottish ancestry with historical roots on these lands, who is an artist and community worker. We also work with supporters who give generously of their time, skills and love to help programme and work events hosted by Indigenous and settler collaborative spaces in the city such as The High Park Nature Centre.
THPS has been doing Indigenous placekeeping work for over 20 years: protecting the mounds, honouring our relationship with Grandmother Moon by holding monthly Full Moon Happenings. We work in deep solidarity with the Re-Sistering Project with Joce Two-Crows Tremblay on the Niwa'ah onega'haih'ih (Colonial name: Humber River); and as a core member of the Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle which works to bring about Indigenous Stewardship of the Black Oak Savannah, finding mechanical rather than chemical means to manage plant species that are out of balance in the park and surrounding areas.
The canoe is $2000 - any funds raised above this will go to THPS organizing work!
These funds will help to purchase and keep the canoe in good repair and well stored, with appropriate protections and maintenance. We look forward to seeing our friends from all localities and community members come to the shoreline to share the beauty of this wonderful heritage canoe!
About
Taiaiako’n Historical Preservation Society is an Onkwehonwe led group that has worked to protect sacred sites in High Park where there are 57 ancient Onkwehonwe sites of spiritual significance as well as the ancient Mohawk-Seneca town site of Taiaiako’n (village at the crossing), located in current day Baby Point and Thunderbird Mound just below, in Magwood Park. THPS has been working with the Six Nations who continue to hold a custodial role in maintaining the mounds and their connection with the Ancestors for future generations.
Our Elders are Donna Powless, Snipe Clan; Cayuga of Six Nations and Catherine Coming Day Tammaro, Spotted (Little) Turtle Clan; Wyandot of Anderdon Nation/Wendat Confederacy ~ artist/musician, mentor. Also in THPS is Joce Two-Crows Tremblay an oshkimaadziig/Great Lakes métis, Beaver Clan; an Onon:wat/Nizh-Manidoo/2S community earthworker, artist and land-based cultural Knowledge~fire~seed Keeper and Kim Jackson, settler Accomplice of Scottish ancestry with historical roots on these lands, who is an artist and community worker. We also work with supporters who give generously of their time, skills and love to help programme and work events hosted by Indigenous and settler collaborative spaces in the city such as The High Park Nature Centre.
THPS has been doing Indigenous placekeeping work for over 20 years: protecting the mounds, honouring our relationship with Grandmother Moon by holding monthly Full Moon Happenings. We work in deep solidarity with the Re-Sistering Project with Joce Two-Crows Tremblay on the Niwa'ah onega'haih'ih (Colonial name: Humber River); and as a core member of the Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle which works to bring about Indigenous Stewardship of the Black Oak Savannah, finding mechanical rather than chemical means to manage plant species that are out of balance in the park and surrounding areas.
The canoe is $2000 - any funds raised above this will go to THPS organizing work!
Organizer
Lk Jackson
Organizer
York, ON
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