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Sagkeeng's scars: colonization has left a traumatic imprint

At the mouth of the river.
In Anishinaabemowin, that is what Sagkeeng means. It is what the people of Sagkeeng First Nation have called their homeland, located on the lush banks of the powerful Winnipeg River, since time immemorial.
The Canadian government would rename that land the Fort Alexander Indian Reserve, as federal agents carved new territorial boundaries out of the countryside in the aftermath of the signing of Treaty 1.
But in the language of the people who call it home, it has always been Sagkeeng.
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Winnipeg River in Powerview and Sagkeeng.
Ever since Sagkeeng Chief Kakakepenaise signed Treaty 1 at Lower Fort Garry in 1871, band members have gathered for an annual celebration known as Treaty Days during the last week of July. ....

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Mohawk physician Thomas Dignan was a champion of Indigenous health care

The Globe and Mail
Lisa Fitterman
Published February 15, 2021
Courtesy of the Family
When Thomas Dignan was in Grade 8, his teacher told his parents he would not amount to much and recommended he attend a trade school. Growing up on Hamilton’s working-class, rough-and-tumble east side, Dr. Dignan, a Mohawk with roots in Six Nations of the Grand River territory, spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong.
He was not an indifferent student, not a bit. Rather, he had dyslexia and once the problem was diagnosed, his ambition, energy and interests eventually led him to become a nurse, then a nursing instructor, then the first Indigenous person to graduate from McMaster University’s medical school, then a licensed pilot who pursued his practice by flying his own plane to remote communities in northern Ontario. ....

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