Beyond the Border
by Barbara McMahon
Title
Beyond the Border
Artist
Barbara McMahon
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The remnants of a boundary are seen that were erected by Canada's Indigenous people as they had taken a stand to reclaim Ipperwash Provincial Park. I am standing in Native waters to take the shot.
The Ipperwash Crisis was an Indigenous land dispute that took place in Ipperwash Provincial Park, Ontario in 1995. Several members of the Stoney Point Ojibway band occupied the park in order to assert their claim to nearby land which had been expropriated from them during World War II. During a violent confrontation, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) killed unarmed protester Dudley George. On Thursday 28 May 2009, Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Minister Brad Duguid formally signed over control of Ipperwash Park to the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation.
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August 2nd, 2012
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