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To: jpthoma1 who wrote (265161)	11/10/2018 9:05:32 AM
From: Graystone	3 Recommendations Recommended By fringe Letmebe Frank onepath Respond to of 314077

I am Canadian or I am so Canadian My family tree is well documented. On my mother's side I am a direct descendant of Chief Antoine Niji Kwiwisens and a Status Indian under the Indian Act, I am on the Sudbury General List, I look like any other non-native Canadian but have a Status card. My great-grandmother was removed from the band rolls forcibly after she married a white trapper, Sandy Johnson. All of her descendants joined the rest of the Algonquins as "unrecognized" natives after they refused to give up their land and move on to the land of the Pikwakanagan Nation (Golden Lake Algonquins) in the mid 1800's. My grandmother was able to regain her status in 1980 with the passage of the Indian Act so that made her daughters and their children eligible for status as well, my grandmother was clearly an Algonquin and very proud of that fact. The government of the day refused to acknowledge the rights of the Algonquins of Ontario though the right to a treaty is recorded in Canada's national archives. A treaty was promised by the British Governor in the early 1700's for the assistance the Algonquin gave to original arrivals, offering to be both guides and translators. There is a treaty currently being negotiated between Canada, Ontario and the AOO (Algonquins of Ontario), it will be the first treaty to deal with a land claim in more than 75 years. By moving forward with the Algonquin treaty negotiations the Canadian and Ontario governments are simply carrying out the promises made by predecessor governments. Algonquins involved today have to prove a direct lineal descent from an Algonquin counted in the census of 1842, (the last time the Canadian government tried to keep it's promise of an Algonquin Treaty). My family lived in Ontario but moved to Alberta in the early 70's. My oldest brother moved to Quebec and married into a family that is for the most part, pure laine, my niece does however speak English very well. My wife's mother's family settled in Alberta after emigrating from the United States (Illinois). My wife's father's family emigrated from Yugoslavia after WW1. My fathers's family emigrated from Wales at around the same time.