Bushman and Dragonfly
For 25 years, Gary Potts was Chief of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai, the People of the Deep Water. In that capacity he led their on-going struggle to win back and protect their traditional homeland (N’Daki Menan) covering 10,000 square kilometres of the Temagami region. It was a campaign of roadblocks,...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/jcs.33.2.186 2023-12-31T10:05:10+01:00 Bushman and Dragonfly Potts, Gary 1998 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcs.33.2.186 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/jcs.33.2.186 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Journal of Canadian Studies volume 33, issue 2, page 186-195 ISSN 0021-9495 1911-0251 History Cultural Studies journal-article 1998 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs.33.2.186 2023-12-01T08:18:25Z For 25 years, Gary Potts was Chief of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai, the People of the Deep Water. In that capacity he led their on-going struggle to win back and protect their traditional homeland (N’Daki Menan) covering 10,000 square kilometres of the Temagami region. It was a campaign of roadblocks, negotiations and law cases that ultimately took the Teme-Augama Anishnabai’s historic claim to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1991. In 1988-89 the Teme-Augama Anishnabai blockaded construction of the Red Squirrel logging road asserting that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai still held legal title to their homeland. At one point, Camp Wanapitei was “occupied” with the enthusiastic co-operation of Bruce Hodgins as a site from which to organize volunteers participating in roadblocks to halt lumbering particularly in the old growth stands of the Waldmika triangle in the heart of N’Dald Menan. In 1996, Gaiy Potts returned to Wanapitei from his home on Bear Island on Lake Temagami, to participate in the Refiguring Wilderness Conference. His paper in this volume is, essentially, the talk he gave one evening with some small changes he made subsequently. It is a personal story of experience, of straggle and of the wisdom gained along the way. That wisdom he shares here with a wider audience. At the request of the author and the guest editors, the text remains untouched by JCS/REC editorial intervention. Article in Journal/Newspaper Bear Island University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Journal of Canadian Studies 33 2 186 195 |
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For 25 years, Gary Potts was Chief of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai, the People of the Deep Water. In that capacity he led their on-going struggle to win back and protect their traditional homeland (N’Daki Menan) covering 10,000 square kilometres of the Temagami region. It was a campaign of roadblocks, negotiations and law cases that ultimately took the Teme-Augama Anishnabai’s historic claim to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1991. In 1988-89 the Teme-Augama Anishnabai blockaded construction of the Red Squirrel logging road asserting that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai still held legal title to their homeland. At one point, Camp Wanapitei was “occupied” with the enthusiastic co-operation of Bruce Hodgins as a site from which to organize volunteers participating in roadblocks to halt lumbering particularly in the old growth stands of the Waldmika triangle in the heart of N’Dald Menan. In 1996, Gaiy Potts returned to Wanapitei from his home on Bear Island on Lake Temagami, to participate in the Refiguring Wilderness Conference. His paper in this volume is, essentially, the talk he gave one evening with some small changes he made subsequently. It is a personal story of experience, of straggle and of the wisdom gained along the way. That wisdom he shares here with a wider audience. At the request of the author and the guest editors, the text remains untouched by JCS/REC editorial intervention. |
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