Sunday, September 27, 2009

The Williams Treaty

How do you feel about hunting and fishing rights? Are you informed? Should we be striving as a community to incorporate this natural way of surviving into our lifestyles? What would is take to relearn some of this knowledge once it's been lost? Like our language isn't this an integral part of the fabric of our community? Should it be a priority to preserve this? http://www.canadiana.org/citm/themes/aboriginals/aboriginals11_e.htmlhttp://www3.sympatico.ca/dshaule/williams.htmhttp://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/al/hts/tgu/pubs/Twil/traw-eng.asphttp://www.accessandprivacy.gov.on.ca/english/order/prov/p-979.html
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  1. AnonymousOctober 1, 2009 at 9:06 PM

    Hunting and fishing was an integral part of our community even until the eighties. hunting and fishing is also a part of who we are as a people. how can we claim to be Ojibwe if we do not know how to survive off the land? I am not saying this is the only thing that makes us who we are but it is a part of who we are. I think that if we took money rather than hunting and fishing rights back our ancestors would roll over in there graves. Also, when it come down to it, money doesn't last forever, hunting and fishing rights would and it can be the start of practicing hunting and fishing on our traditional lands again....Just imagine how our community could be empowered by that! We are so far lost from who we are we need to claim some identity.

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  2. unforgivenOctober 3, 2009 at 6:30 PM

    Should there not be a person at the band office to research and be able to understand our rights and treaties. Such a person could answer questions for the regular Rama Member. I've had discussions with many people at the band office, and I was surprised how little our own council members know.....(I'm not really surprised)(insert sarcasm here!)

    I'm no hunter or fisherman, but what I would like to see is our own large island (Chiefs Island) taken care of, so that people can use it to fish on or just take a walk on to teach our children about our ancestors. Is there no way to stop the City-iots from mooring their boats there every weekend and blasting music, taking dogs onto the island to crap, leaving gargbae, camping etc.....? This type of disrespect can't go on. If I were to fish this place would be perfect. A nice quiet island it will never be again! Do our treaties allow us a certain amount of space around and island to keep thses fools off our island and burial site.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 9, 2009 at 2:35 PM

    What about "No Tresspassing" signs?
    Then you could use the Rama Police to enforce the rules.

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