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An Ottawa community crowd-sourced database to document and track "Rolling Thunder" convoy incidents and community responses

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Led by members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, people in Ottawa marched in front of Parliament and to the nearby...

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Family members of Anthony Aust and Koray Celik spoke at the event along with organizer Bridget Tolley, whose mother Gladys Tolley was killed 20 years ago this month.

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Recording of November 15, 2019 event hosted by MiningWatch Canada and Octopus Books.

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After leading two walking tours of the Sacred Site at ‘Chaudière Falls’ in Ottawa, it was suggested – and I...

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Powershift 2019: Young and Rising takes place February 14-18. With environmental and climate problems increasing, it’s good to look back...

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Presentation/Q&A of Marcelo Sabuc Xalcut, national coordinator of the Highlands Committee of Small-Farmers (CCDA) in Guatemala, building solidarity for circumstances...

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Dec. 19 Asinabka / Akikodjiwan panel discussion & musical performances, as part of Phil Ochs Festival in Ottawa, unceded Algonquin...

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91-minute audio recording: Protecting Asinabka / Akikodjiwan from Windmill’s planned “Zibi” $1.2bn condo-commercial development on the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa/Gatineau, unceded Algonquin territory. From December 19, 2015 as part of the Phil Ochs Festival.

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Recorded by Judith Matheson, FreeTheFalls.ca and Birth 2012 Ottawa Gatineau

Peter Di Gangi – Research and Policy Director, Algonquin Nation Secretariat – speaking to the crowd at #OchsFest

VIDEO STILL TO COME !

– Send an email to Akikpautik (~at~) gmail.com and ask to be notified when it’s ready (please state whether you’d like ongoing updates, or just this one email)

UPDATE: Videos are now posted at this link.

Also – PAMPHLET:

Support the Algonquin Vision for Akikodjiwan Kichizibi(2-page pdf to print double-sided ‘flip on short edge’ then fold) that you can pass on to friends, family and colleagues: available at www.bit.ly/chaudiere-flyer – includes background information and action items.

Set list‘ with start times:

(moderator = Michael Desautels)

  • 0:00 Barbara Dumont-Hill
    – Algonquin drum keeper, community volunteer, and spiritual advisor

  • 05:07 Albert Dumont “South Wind”
    – Algonquin community activist, volunteer, poet, storyteller and spiritual advisor

  • 11:04 Tito Medina
    – Singer-Songwriter and an icon for Guatemalan revolutionary music

  • 17:10 Douglas Cardinal
    – World-Class Organic Architect, Anishinaabe Elder and First Nations Activist

  • 25:43 Gabrielle Fayant and Amanda Fox
    – Spirit Flowers Indigenous women’s hand drum group

  • 35:32 Michael Desautels
    – Student & Labour Action Committee of Freeing Chaudière Falls and its Islands

  • 39:30 Kevin Schofield
    – the Tennessee Cree

  • 47:23 Romola Thumbadoo
    – Coordinator, William Commanda’s Circle of All Nations / Asinabka Chaudiere Site Work

  • 67:21 Julie Comber (Vela)
    – Singer-songwriter researcher settler-ally; member of Freeing Chaudière Falls and its Islands

  • 80:03 Peter Di Gangi
    – Research and Policy Director for the Algonquin Nation Secretariat

  • 88:27 Barbara Dumont-Hill

Map – downtown Ottawa/Gatineau border on the Ottawa River Approx. location of the Zibi condo development project at the sacred Akikodjiwan falls site on the Ottawa River, downtown Ottawa/Gatineau (Map: Google Maps, customized by IntercontinentalCry.org)

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78 minute audio recording of talk by Research and Policy Director of the Algonquin Nation Secretariat, Peter Di Gangi, presented December 8th 2015 at Octopus Books in Ottawa, unceded Algonquin territory – also available is a 74 minute version for use in burning to standard CD format.

Audio player embedded below.

Map of the Ottawa River Watershed – click the map for full-size image, or download the pdf version.

Outline of talk: * The Ottawa River * Algonquins and Nipissings – pre-contact * French-English competition, fur trade, war and peace * Logging and settlement in the Ottawa valley * Impacts * Petitions for reserve lands * Dams and hydro * Sports hunting, trapping * Policy and law in the 20th century * Current events

Listen to the talk:

Click for mp3 files:

  • 78 minute version (full, with intro)
  • 73m55s version (without intro, and sped up 4%, for burning onto a standard 74-min CD)

Algonquin Nation Secretariat: www.algonquinnation.ca

—- Related content —-

On the Algonquin land claim for eastern Ontario:

  • Reconciliation as Real Negotiations or Termination Table? The Algonquin Land Claim in Eastern Ontario (November 2015)

  • Interview with Algonquin Nation Secretariat advisor Russell Diabo (February 2015) mp3 file link

(with correction: 6,000 non-status enrolled members, not 16,000)

On the sacred Chaudiere Falls area (Akikodjiwan / Asinabka) and Windmill Development Group’s “Zibi” condo plans:

  • Videos & podcast from event, Protecting the Sacred Chaudière Falls Site – Asinabka / Akikodjiwan – from Windmill’s “Zibi” condo development (December 2015)

  • If Algonquin chiefs oppose “Zibi” condos and the media’s not there, does it make a sound? (December 2015)

  • Nine Algonquin chiefs, AFNQL oppose ‘Zibi’ condos and resolve to protect sacred area in Ottawa/Gatineau (November 2015)

  • Collection of Algonquin voices opposed to ‘Zibi’ condo development on sacred site in Ottawa (November 2015)

  • Handout, article, audio and videos to stop private development of sacred Chaudière site (January 2015)

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UPDATE 2018:

For further discussion around this topic (and specifically with respect to a claim that Ottawa is Mohawk Territory), see Peter Di Gangi in conversation with Albert Dumont and Monique Monatch on their monthly Rogers TV show, IndigenUs

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