Chief Blackstone: Ojibway - Sturgeon Lake Band Leader - Lac La Croix, Ontario

Описание: This is a video for: "Chief Blackstone", a Sturgeon Lake Band Leader ofthe Ojibway People, who resided in Kawa Bay & Lac La Croix First Nation, in Ontario. There are also videos in this channel for over 1200 North, South & Central American Tribes & First Nations, Residential Schools, Chiefs, Elders, Historical Events, Indigenous Concerns, Quotes, Environmental Youth Activists.. and much more.

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"Chief Blackstone" of the Sturgeon Lake Band was the son of the first Chief Blackstone of Lac La Croix First Nation, a famous orator, who fought for the rights of Ojibway people in the 1873, 'Treaty 3' with the Canadian government. In the northern areas of Ontario, there are legendary Indigenous stories about the trials and tribulations of Indigenous Peoples, during the 1918-20 Spanish flu pandemic. One of these stories involved a 50-mile (72.3 km) snowshoe journey, by Ojibway Chief Blackstone and his wife, while in a desperate need for help, who travelled to Winton, Minnesota, from their Sturgeon Lake Band community. In the winter of 1918-19, the pandemic was decimating Chief Blackstone's Ojibwe' village at Kawa Bay. Only Chief Blackstone and his wife were healthy enough to snowshoe to Jack Powell’s cabin on Saganagons, in order to get help. There was no telephone, or radio there, so, the two continued on to Winton, Minnesota, where they radioed the Canadian authorities, that their village at Kawa Bay, was dying. After the message had been relayed, Chief Blackstone and his wife headed back up, home. And then, tragedy struck. At the northeast end of Agnes Lake, Chief Blackstone collapsed in the snow and died. It wasn’t until 'springtime', when the Canadian authorities finally responded to the 'call for help'. By the time they arrived at Kawa Bay, only a few of the Ojibwe' people had survived and then.., they were "forcibly removed" to Lac La Croix, to reside. Seventy-six years later, on June 3rd 1991, the Ontario government made a formal public apology for the injustice of taking away the reserve and "forcible removal" of the Sturgeon Lake Band 24C.

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