Our long struggle for home : the Ipperwash story / Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig (The Ones Who Come From Aazhoodena).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race discrimination--Ontario.

Race discrimination.

Ethnic relations.

Race relations.

Indians of North America--Land tenure--Ontario--Ipperwash Provincial Park.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--Ontario.

George, Dudley, 1957-1995.

George, Dudley.

Ontario--Race relations.

Ontario.

Ontario--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver ; Toronto : On Point Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Most Canadians know only a tiny apart of the Ipperwash story - the 1995 police shooting of Dudley George. In Our Long Struggle for Home, George's sister, cousins, and others from the Stoney Point Reserve tell of broken promises and thwarted hopes in the decades-long battle to reclaim their ancestral homeland, both before and after the police action culminating in George's death. Offering insights into Nishnaabeg lifeways and historical treaties, this compelling account conveys how government decisions have affected lives, livelihoods, and identity. We hear of the devastation wrought by forcible eviction when the government re-purposed Nishnaabeg ancestral territory as an army training camp in 1942, promising to return it after the war. By May 1993, the elders had waited long enough. They entered the still-functioning training camp, under cover of a picnic outing, and constituted themselves as the interim government of the reclaimed Stoney Point Reserve. The next two years brought cultural and social revival, though it was ultimately quashed as an illegal occupation. Our Long Struggle for Home also shows what can be accomplished through perseverance and undiminished belief in a better future. This is a necessary lesson on colonialism, the power of resistance, persistence, and the possibilities inherent in recognizing treaty rights."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Our long struggle for home.

ISBN:

0774890576

9780774890571

OCLC:

1309961964

Publisher Number:

99991988575