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NDaki Menan (My Land)	Native tales, legends and folk-lore from Temagami. As told by Elders. Fight for the Land: Native Sovereignity and Land Claim negotiations. Documented evidence Pictures from Temagami Printed on Paper and Scanned F.Densmore, Chippewa Customs Basil Johnston OJIBWAY CEREMONIES Ojibway (Chippewa) Tales {beaver-tail legends-of-my-people nanabosho.steals.fire tales.of.anishnabek by-canoe-and-moccasin mishomis.book star.maiden} The Manitous. Spiritual Way of the Ojibways. Grace Rainovich. Reading Rock Art CENTRAL CREE AND OJIBWAY CRAFTS Madeline Theriault. Moose to moccasins Thor Conway. SPIRITS ON THE STONE The Bear Island Trial and The Bear Island Incident. from "Justice In Paradise" by Dr. Bruce Clark Dr. Frank Speck. Alqonquian source book Mors Kochansky. Northern Bush Craft Ray Bradbury. from "Martian Chronicles": JUNE 2001:And the Moon Be Still As Bright. "They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. ..They discovered the secret of life among animals." "They stopped where we should have stopped a hundred years ago. I've walked in their cities and I know these people and I'd be glad to call them my ancestors." "I've found some underground passages and a place to live you'll never find. I'll withdraw there to live for a few weeks. Until you're off guard." AUGUST 2001:The Settlers. "They came because they were afraid or unafraid, because they were happy or unhappy, because they felt like Pilgrims or did not feel like Pilgrims."
Maps	Maps of Indian Territory as of 1763. From Anishinabe Nation. Location of the Algonquin groups and of a few neighboring nations at the beginning of the 17th century. from Algonquin Culture and History Links Map of Canada published in 01695 by Robert Morden Of London, England from M.Swift, "Historical Maps of Canada", 2001. Location of Lake Temagami on political map of North America.. Atlas of the World, Helicon Publishing, 2001. Lake Temagami and Bear Island Reserve Location in north-eastern Ontario, Canada. Hunting Territories of Timagami band as recorded and published in 1915 by Dr. F.G. Speck, anthropologist Map of Ndaki-Menan. Drawn by Gary Potts, former Chief of TFN. Scattering of Tribes. Comparing size of land in reserves in U.S. and Canada. Trapline boundaries of Bear island co-operative. Lands set aside by Ontario Government in 1996 during land claim negotiations. Temagami Forest Unit Management Plan by MNR (Ministry of Natural Resources) 2004-2024 - evidence of clearcut logging on the unceded lands Clearcuts and old fires in Temagami from satellite. from ottertooth.com Geophysical survey of Temagami area with township boundaries
Native Sovereignity: Makominising Anishnabeg (People of Berry island)	Statement of Native Elder on Land Claim Negotiations: Evidence Concealed by former TFN Chiefs (Temagami First Nation signed a treaty with King of England in 1836). Winter 2004, Makominising island Land Deal Explained. Banner prepared to the visit of Lt.-Governor of Ontario to Bear island in June of 2003. Statement of Traditional Family Head on the visit of Leutenant-Governor of Ontario to Bear Island Reserve on June 5th, 2003 Reply of TFN member to "Notice of proposed aboriginal and treaty rights log cut and fule wood personal use", article in Temagami Times. Map of Temagami lake and area with timber resources intented for personal use by Temagami First Nation People. Real Truth about TAA - Statement of Temagami First Nation's Traditional Family Heads .October 1997
Aboriginal Rights Bear island Trial	Attorney General for Ontario vs. Bear Island Foundation et al, 1984. Chronology of the Temagami Struggle.. from forests.org A CHRONOLOGY OF THE TEME-AUGAMA STRUGGLE.. from Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty or local copy. Land Claim and non native families. Dr. Bruce Clark's letter in regards to Bear island case. Private communication. 2005. Bear Island Retrospective. Dr. Bruce Clark, January 2003. Judgment of Native Court. Dr. Bruce Clark,from Justice in Paradise, 1999 International Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948 Draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples source: United Nations Dead Indians, Live Indians,and Genocide. Article from http://www.dickshovel.com/www.html Retelling Allotment: Indian Property Rights and the Myth of Common Ownership source: Kenneth H. Bobroff, Assistant Professor of Law, University of New Mexico. A.B. 1986, Princeton University;M.Phil. 1988, Oxford University; J.D. 1994, Stanford Law School. Films & Video Recordings on INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA from York University in Toronto,Ontario Internet resources on old-growth white and red pines at Obabika Lake in Temagami and Wakimika Triangle. Northen forests endangered. Vanishing Old-Growth Forests.local copy The Obabika Trails.local copy Canada's old-growth forests.local copy Old Growth Native Species MNR News:Temagami Old Growth Red And White Pine.local copy Old growth found in temagami. New species of old growth found, will be logged. TEMAGAMI WILDERNESS THREATENED BY LOGGING AND MINING.local copy GREENPEACE SUPPORTS EARTHROOTS' CALL FOR TEMAGAMI PROTECTION.local copy Sierra-Club:Temagami Old-Growth Threatened. Green Parties to Support Protesters.local copy Temagami Old-Growth Threatened by Development.local copy Temagami, Canada Wilderness Threatened by Logging and Mining.local copy Old Growth Tours.local copy CNF EDUCATION:An Ancient Forest Atlas of the Lake Temagami
Memoirs	The Bear Island Trial and The Bear Island Incident, from "Justice In Paradise" by Dr. Bruce Clark. 1999 Frank Speck.Family Hunting Territories and Social Life of Various Algonkian Bands of the Ottawa Valley. Memoir 70. Ottawa, 1915. Scanned from microfilm at York University in Toronto. 800x600 pixels resolution. Map of Hunting Territories of Timagami band Contents Frank Speck.Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa. Memoir 71. Ottawa, 1915. Scanned from microfilm at York University in Toronto. 800x600 pixels resolution. Contents Temagami Tales in HTML Frank Speck.Articles. Scanned from microfilm at York University in Toronto. 800x600 pixels resolution. The Family Hunting Band as the Basis of Algonkian Social Organization. "The family hunting group is a kinship group composed of folks united by blood or marriage, having the right to hunt, trap and fish in a certain inherited district bounded by some rivers, lakes or other natural landmarks." "The districts among Algonkian seem to average between two and four hundred square miles to each family in the main habitat, while on the tribal frontiers they may average from two to four times as large." "The testimony of an Ojibwa chief Aleck Paul at lake Temagami, Ontario, is interesting because it gives us a fisrt hand translation of the actual statement of an Indian authority himself." "The Timagami people .. had maintained the hunting territory system up to the present.. There are fourteen families that form the group... the Timagami event went so far as to divide their districts into quarters, each year the family hunting in a different quarter in rotation." "The Timagami called one of these territories nda'k'im, 'my land'". Game Totems among the Northeastern Algonkians. "The animals with which the families claim their associations are the animals with which these same families prey upon, obtaining their flesh and hides for substistence." The Social Structure of the Northern Algonkians. "The possesion of a common hunting district ('my hunting ground','my land', in the native dialects) is a strong bond of union for the family." "The climatic severity of their habitat, causing them great economic difficulties, has necessitated their formation into small biological groups of individuals related by blood or marriage under the direction of some able-bodied elderly leader, a family head." Kinship Terms and the Family Band Among the Northeastern Algonkian. "Timagami Ojibwa who not only are organized on the basis of the family territorial band, but also have the exogamic gentile system." More Algonkian Scapulimancy from the North, and the Hunting Territory Question. "They put upon the fire a certain flat bone of the porcupine; then they look at its color attentively to see if they will hunt these animals with success." "We are becoming more concious of the non-ecclesiastical character of divination as a personal instrumentality of the individual hunter on par in his own esteem with the sharp instruments of the chase by means of which he gains subsistence." 'exogamic' of marriage outside a class or tribe as required by custom or law. 'gentile' a person who is not a member of one's own religion. 'scapulimancy' - noun, divination by cracks in heated caribou shoulder-blades 'par' - noun, Synonyms: EQUIVALENCE, adequation, equality, equatability, equivalency, parity, sameness 'ecclesiastical' - adj., Of or relating to a church, especially as an organized institution. Appropriate to a church or to use in a church.
Government of Ontario and Canada Legal Documents and Acts	The Royal Proclamation of 1763 prepared by William F. Maton Robinson-Huron Treaty, 1850 source: Killarney History site Attorney General for Ontario vs. Bear Island Foundation et al, 1984 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms source: Government of Ontario (canadian) Indian Act of 1985(annotated) (1880, 1884, 1895, 1927 ) source: bloorstreet-com web services Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, 1997 source: Government of Ontario Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993 source: Government of Ontario Crown Forest Sustainability Act, 1994 source: Government of Ontario Public Lands Act, 1990 source: Government of Ontario Ontario Water Resources Act, 1990 source: Government of Ontario Pesticides Act, 1990 source: Government of Ontario Environmental Assessment Act, 1990 source: Government of Ontario Provincial Parks Act, 1990 source: Government of Ontario (federal) Fisheries Act source: Government of Ontario
Recommended Reading	Please chose Canadian publishers with ancient forest friendly paper commitments : Raincoast Books, New Society Publishers, Random House, Doubleday Canada. Douglas & McIntyre, Key Porter Books, Knopf Canada, Penguin Canada. M.Theriault. Moose to Moccasins. , Natural Heritage, 1992 A.Leopold. A Sand Country Almanac. 1949, Oxford Levi-Strauss. The Savage Mind. 1962 Berkes F. Sacred Ecology. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management. Bruce Clark. Justice in Paradise. 1999. McGill-Queen's University Press intellectual property rights: Posey D., Duffield G. Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability: Cases and Actions.1997. Utrecht, IUCN (International Conservation Union) Posey D., Duffield G. Beyond Intellectual Property:Toward Traditional Resource Rights For Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.1996.Ottawa, International Research and Development Center Brush S., Stabinsky D. Valuing Local Knowledge: Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights.1996. Washington DC. Island Press environmental ethics: Callicot J. Traditional American Indian and Western Europenean Attitudes Toward Nature:an Overview.1982.Environmental Ethics 4:293-318 Callicot J. In Defence of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. 1989. Albany, State University of New York Press environmental history: Mowat F. A Sea of Slaughter. Cronon W. Changes in the Land: Indians,Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. 1983 Turner B., Clark W. The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere Over the Past 300 Years. 1990. Cambridge University Press dissatisfaction with sciences that places artificial divide between mind and nature: Bateson G. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. 1972. New York Bateson G. Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. 1979 Capro F. The Web of Life. 1996 Evernden N. The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment. 1993, 2nd ed. University of Toronto Press ethnoecology and traditional ecological knowledge: Klee G. World Systems of Traditional Resource Management. 1980. London, Edward Arnold Borrini-Feyerabend G. Collaborative Management of Protected Areas. 1996. IUCN Heywood V. Global Biodiversity Assessment.1995. United Nations Environmental Program and University of Cambridge Press Capro F. The Turning Point.