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  1. Contents
  2. Maps
  3. Introduction: Where Histories Meet
  4. Part One: The Toronto Carrying Place
    1. Toronto’s Indigenous Name
    2. Deep Time in the Humber River Watershed
    3. Trade and Colonial Rivalries
  5. Founding York
    1. Early British Treaties
    2. Turning Indigenous Territory into Private Property
    3. Indigenous-Settler Encounters
    4. Settlers on Indigenous Lands
  6. Changing Relationships
    1. The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath
    2. The Postwar Fur Trade along Yonge Street
    3. Deforestation, Farming, and Milling
  7. The Civilizational Agenda
    1. Indigenous Christianity
    2. Yonge Street Camp Meetings
    3. The Credit Mission
    4. The Coldwater and the Narrows Settlement
    5. “Progress,” Setbacks, and Strategies for Self-Sufficiency
  8. Agency in Times of Struggle
    1. The Quest for Secure Land Tenure
    2. Defending the Crown
    3. Surviving, Rebuilding, Adapting, Resisting
    4. From Civilization to Assimilation
    5. Black Wampum
  9. New Strategies for Dark Times
    1. The Indian Act and the Great Council Fire
    2. After 1876
    3. Conclusion: Confronting History, (Re)making History
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Selected Bibliography
  12. Map Credits
  13. Notes
  14. Index

Index

A

Aborigines Protection Society, 195, 213, 241

Acland, Henry, 244, 275

agriculture, 1–3, 23, 26, 54–55, 68, 74, 77, 79, 83, 87–88, 99, 104–105, 118–121, 123, 131–134, 138, 140, 149, 153, 157, 159–161, 165, 167, 169, 171–175, 177, 179, 181–182, 189, 196, 197, 199–200, 204, 206–208, 211–212, 214, 217–219, 221, 223–224, 229–231, 233, 235, 238, 241–242, 249, 265

See also horticulture

Aitken, Alexander, 56

Ajetance Treaty (Treaty 19), 99, 103

Albany, New York, 35, 41

See also fur trade

alcohol, 41, 44, 46–47, 109, 113, 123, 131, 137, 139–141, 144, 150, 163, 172–173, 179, 183, 195–196

abstinence, 46, 113, 135, 137, 140, 153, 179, 278, 280

See also fur trade; Methodism; slavery and slave trade

Alderville, 32, 56, 216, 225, 230

Alley, Gerald, 173–176, 181, 201, 203

alliances, 26, 28, 32, 35, 37, 39, 42, 44–45, 52, 56, 61, 67, 70–72, 95–96, 98–99, 105, 134, 140, 167, 189, 194, 196, 200–201, 212, 214–215, 220, 224, 233, 235, 241, 249–250, 252–253, 277, 283–284

See also Covenant Chain Wampum; Dish with One Spoon Wampum; governance, Indigenous; Mississauga-Haudenosaunee alliance of the 1790s; presents; Treaty of Niagara; Wampum; Wendat (Huron)

Alnwick residential school, 230

American Revolution, 51, 79, 81, 88–89, 114, 189

Anderson, Elizabeth, 168

Anderson, Thomas Gummersall, 167–168, 171–177, 179–180, 182–184, 187–189, 191, 193–194, 197, 225–228, 231

Anglicans

See Church of England

Anishinaabe(k), 7–9, 13–15, 17–18, 20, 22, 25–26, 32, 34–35, 37–39, 42, 44, 46, 52, 54, 61–62, 69–70, 86, 88, 95–96, 100, 103, 107, 111, 114, 117, 125–126, 134, 137, 139, 143, 145, 148–149, 155–156, 162–163, 165, 167–169, 173–174, 177, 180, 183, 187–188, 191, 196–197, 199–201, 204, 213–216, 220–221, 225–226, 237–241, 243–244, 251–253, 255–257, 259, 272, 283, 285, 291, 294–295, 297

Great Flood re-creation story, 22

See also Chippewas; Grand General Council of Ontario; Mississaugas of Scugog Island; Mississaugas of the Credit; Odaawaa; Ojibwe; oral tradition; Potawatomi (Bodewadmi)

annuities, 117, 176–177, 181, 206, 225–227, 237, 239–241, 243, 254–255, 259

Archeological discoveries, 24, 32

Ashanyoong

See Lake Simcoe (Ashanyoong / Azhoonyaang)

Assance, John (Little Shell), 96, 102, 107, 117, 147–149, 167, 172, 174, 176–177, 180–181, 183, 188, 193, 196–197, 200–201, 203, 206, 208, 213, 216–217, 227–229

Assiginack, Jean-Baptiste, 180

Atherley Narrows

See Narrows, the (Mnjikaning)

Attawandaron

See Neutrals (Attawandaron)

B

Baby, Jacques Duperon, 44

Baby, James, 44

Bagot Commission, 221, 223–225

Bagot, Charles, 223

Balsam Lake, 107, 188–189, 213, 218

band administration

band council, 250, 254, 259–260, 263, 271, 273, 276–277, 283

band funds, 213, 235–237

band lists, 203, 224, 249

band administration (continued)

See also Gradual Civilization Act (1857); Indian Department / Indian Affairs Administration; Indian reserves; land rights and tenure

Battle of York, 96–97

Beausoleil First Nation, 19

Beausoleil Island, 169, 208, 216–217

Beaver Wars, 37

Beman, Eli, 171, 201

Beman, Elisha, 114–115, 127, 171

Benson Nanigishkung, Emerson, 21–23, 95, 103

Berczy, William, 81–83, 127

Big Canoe, Albert, 114, 149, 155, 169, 260, 263, 289, 291

Big Canoe, Andrew, 15, 120, 123, 194, 204, 287, 298

Big Shilling (Negenaunaquot), 149, 181, 213

Black Creek, 26, 30, 79, 84, 125, 297–298

Black Creek Pioneer Village

See Village at Black Creek, The

Bluejay, 139, 162, 267

boats and ships, 15, 17–18, 47, 95, 112–115, 120, 123, 125, 127, 149–150, 155–156, 169, 183–184, 194, 204, 218, 233, 260, 263, 267, 269, 287, 289, 291, 298

See also canoe; portages

Bodewadmi

See Potawatomi (Bodewadmi)

Bond Head, Francis, 115, 189–191, 193–197, 204, 211, 214, 224

Bootaaganasiig

See Potagunasees (Bootaaganasiig)

Borland & Roe, 109–111, 113, 173

Borland Family, 112–113

Borland, Andrew, 93, 109–113, 115, 173–174, 177, 184, 201, 203, 217, 298

Borland, Elizabeth, 111–112

Borland, John, 112

Brant, Christiana, 138

Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea), 7, 51–52, 57, 66–68, 70–72, 79, 81–83, 99, 105, 134, 138, 274–275, 277–278, 281

See also American Revolution; Freemasons; Haldimand Tract; Jones, Augustus; Mississaugas of the Credit; Six Nations of the Grand River

Brantford, 32, 66, 134, 219, 224, 231, 244, 258, 262, 271, 274

British and Foreign Bible Society, 133

British colonialism, 66, 76, 104–105, 117, 132, 140, 220, 255, 277, 279

See also civilizational agenda; forts and trading posts; Indian Department / Indian Affairs administration; Indian policy; land cessions and agreements; settlers and settlement—British settlers; war and warfare

British North America Act, 249

British Wesleyan Methodists

See Methodism—Wesleyan Methodists

Brock, Isaac, 93, 95

Buck, John (Skanawiti), 214–215, 258

Butler’s Rangers, 79

Butler, John, 56, 79, 277

See also Johnson-Butler treaties (1787–88)

C

Canada, 1, 23, 44, 51–52, 54, 89, 96, 98–99, 103, 105, 110, 134, 150, 167, 192–195, 207, 213, 216, 220, 224–225, 236, 243, 245, 249, 251, 253–254, 255-256, 259–261, 265–266, 270, 276–281, 284–285, 292, 294–295

Confederation, 71, 249–250

Province of, 213, 220, 236, 245

See also Upper Canada

Canada West, 13, 212, 220, 224, 236

Canise / Kenease, 20–21, 54, 169

canoe, 17-18, 47, 95, 125,150, 156, 267

See also boats and ships; portages; Toronto Carrying-Place Trail; transportation

Carleton, Guy

See Dorchester, Lord (Guy Carleton)

Catholics, 115, 133, 180, 216

See also Odaawaa

Cayuga (Gayogo̱ho:nǫ), 9, 36, 134, 219

See also Haudenosaunee Confederacy; Six Nations of the Grand River

Changing the Narrative project, 2, 285, 297–298

Charles, Leona, 263–264, 291

Cherokee Nation, 212, 223

Children of Peace

See Quakers (Society of Friends); Willson, David

Chippewas, 1–2, 4, 6–9, 14–15, 21–22, 26, 39, 54, 57, 62, 69, 77–79, 87, 90, 95–99, 102–103, 105, 107, 109, 113–114, 120–121, 123, 126, 132–133, 149, 153, 155, 165–167, 169, 172–177, 179, 181–182, 184, 188–191, 193–194, 196–197, 200–209, 212, 217, 226, 228–229, 238, 240, 249, 259–260, 263–265, 269, 285, 287–289, 297

of Beausoleil First Nation, 19, 167, 169, 208, 216–217, 226, 251, 259

of Georgina Island, 2, 7, 15, 62, 114, 120, 123,126, 149,155, 165, 169, 194, 204, 217, 208, 240, 259–260, 263, 265, 269, 287–288, 297

of Lakes Huron and Simcoe, 54, 62, 79, 96, 99, 102–103, 107, 153, 167, 169, 202

of Rama, 1, 2, 4, 6–8, 14, 21-22, 26, 39, 57, 77–79, 87, 90, 95, 98, 103,107, 109, 121,132, 149, 155, 165,167, 169, 179, 184, 193, 203–209, 216–217, 226, 228–229, 251, 259–260, 264–265, 269, 285, 287, 289, 291, 297

Tri-Council, 189, 209

See also Anishinaabe(k); Assance, John (Little Shell); Beausoleil First Nation; Coldwater-Narrows Reserve; Grand General Council of Ontario; land cessions and agreements; land claims; Musquakie (William Yellowhead); Musquakie (Yellowhead); Rebellion of 1837; Snake, Joseph; War of 1812

Christian Guardian, 196, 234

Christian Island, 167, 208, 217, 251, 265

Christian names, 9, 149

Christianity, 3, 5, 7–9, 20, 28, 46, 63–64, 67–68, 111, 113, 131–141, 143–145, 147–153, 155–157, 160, 162–163, 165, 167, 174, 179, 196, 208, 212–213, 216–217, 220, 234, 251, 256, 265, 268, 289

See also Catholics; Church of England; clergy reserves; Indigenous Christianity; Methodism; missionaries; Quakers; religion

Church of England, 63, 99, 117–118, 133–134, 136, 143, 167, 179–180, 207, 216, 275

See also clergy reserves; missionaries; Strachan, John

Circle Wampum, 64

citizenship

See enfranchisement

civilizational agenda, 3, 8, 129, 131–134, 140,151, 160, 163, 165, 167, 189, 235

Clans, 36, 38–39, 62–63, 81, 114, 149, 167, 216–217, 241, 250, 257, 274

See also Doodems, 55, 73, 102, 125, 203, 238,

Claus, William, 72, 76, 96, 99

clergy reserves, 99, 143, 199

Cobeckenonk

See Humber River (Gebekanaang / Cobekhenonk)

Colborne, John, 113, 161, 167, 169, 172-174, 184, 187, 189

Colborne paddle steamer, 113, 184

Coldwater Road, 113, 169, 172–173, 175–176, 184, 189, 194

Coldwater Treaty, 193

Coldwater-Narrows Land Claim, 209

Coldwater-Narrows Reserve, 3, 165, 167–177, 179, 182–184, 189, 191, 193–194, 204, 207, 209, 217

See also Chippewas

Collins Purchase, 54, 57

Coppaway, Rhonda, 5, 289, 298

Corbiere, Alan, 2, 4, 6, 297–298

Cousineau, Ben, 4, 8, 26, 78, 98, 103, 109, 121, 132, 203, 206, 208, 228–229, 285–286, 289, 291–292, 295, 297–298

Covenant Chain, 44, 134, 224, 252

See also alliances

Covenant Chain Wampum, 44

Crane, Jacob, 109, 188

Crawford, Seth, 136, 138

Credit Chief, 214, 218

Credit Mission, 3, 7, 105, 127, 145, 151–153, 155–161, 163, 216, 223, 238–239, 266–267, 276

See also education; Field, Eliza; Herkimer, Lawrence (brother of William); Herkimer, William; Jones, John (Thayandenaged); Jones, Peter (Kahkewaquonaby / Desagondensta); Mississaugas of the Credit; Methodism; Nahnebahwequay (Sutton, Catherine); Ryerson, Egerton

Credit Mission legal code, 256, 276-7

Credit River, 3, 5, 35, 39, 99, 102, 127, 137, 141, 151, 153, 156–159, 165, 189, 203, 212, 256, 266, 276

See also Mississaugas of the Credit

Crown Lands Protection Act (1839), 212, 240

Cummer Mill, 83, 143, 145

Cummer, Elizabeth (Fisher), 3, 45, 83, 86, 143, 199–200

Cummer, Jacob, 83–84, 126, 143

Cummer, John, 84, 126, 143, 145,147, 200

Cummer, Joshua, 200

Curve Lake

See Mud Lake

D

D’Este, Augustus, 213, 270

Darling, Henry C., 165, 167

Davis, Thomas, 135–136, 138, 147, 150, 293

Davisville, 136–138

Detroit, 28, 44, 62, 88, 93, 95, 201

disclaimers, 8, 311n16

diplomacy, Indigenous

See alliances; governance, Indigenous; presents

disease, 20, 28, 46–47, 76, 131–132, 195, 266–267, 270

smallpox, 20, 28, 266–267, 270

See also Credit Mission; Jones, Peter Edmund (Kahkewaquonaby); medicine, Indigenous; Oronhyatekha (Martin, Peter)

Dish with One Spoon Wampum, 17, 36–37, 39, 51, 214–216, 233, 252

dispossession

See land rights and tenure—dispossession

Don River, 56, 59, 79, 82–83, 90, 126

Doodems, 36, 38, 55, 62–63, 73, 102, 125, 203, 238, 241

See also Clans

Dorchester, Lord (Guy Carleton), 57, 191

Douglas, Mark, 14, 184, 207, 287, 298

Drummond Island, 112–113, 168

E

education, 67, 79, 109, 126, 133, 140, 149–153, 156–157, 159-160, 172, 179–180, 182–183, 223–227, 229–231, 234, 237, 254, 256, 262–263, 270–271, 274–275, 281–282, 285, 288, 294–295

curriculum and teaching methods, 1, 4, 38, 46, 53, 72, 141, 151–153, 157, 159, 161, 183, 194, 214–215, 223, 229, 232, 251–252, 254, 269, 294, 297

schools, 3, 66, 99, 113, 127, 133, 138, 144–145, 148–153, 156–157, 161, 172, 179–183, 189, 196, 213–214, 218, 223–231, 236, 238, 251, 254, 256, 263–264, 270–272, 274–275, 278, 280–281, 285

teachers, 22, 36, 55, 67, 109, 134–135, 151–153, 156, 159, 172, 181, 223, 229, 234–236, 263, 280, 290–291, 294

See also civilizational agenda; Credit Mission; industrial schools; Jones, John (Thayandenaged); manual-labour schools; Martin’s Corner School; Mohawk Institute; Oxford University; residential schools; Ryerson, Egerton; schools; Toronto Normal School; Toronto School of Medicine; University of Toronto

enfranchisement, 237–238, 243, 250–251, 253–257, 273

See also Gradual Enfranchisement Act (1869); Grand General Council of Ontario; Jones, Peter Edmund (Kahkewaquonaby)

environmental change, 1, 119, 123, 126, 127, 131,135, 188

deforestation, 119, 120, 123, 125–126, 212

habitat loss, 120, 182

impact on wildlife, 46, 119–121, 228

water levels, 46, 120, 125–126, 188

water pollution, 125

See also agriculture; milling; salmon

Eternal Council Fires or Yellowhead Wampum, 38–39, 214–215

Etobicoke, 61, 88, 93, 105, 200

Etobicoke Creek, 56, 76

F

Family Compact, 44, 114, 117, 199

farming

See agriculture

Field, Eliza, 156, 220, 238, 240

First Nations, 2, 4, 6–9, 21, 28, 56, 61, 95, 116–117, 151–152, 166, 170, 173, 177, 193, 209, 212, 215, 221, 225, 227, 235, 237–238, 243–244, 249–250, 252, 254, 259–261, 276, 281, 285, 295, 297

See also individual names

Fisher, Catherine, 45, 199

Fisher, Elizabeth

See Cummer, Elizabeth (Fisher) and also Stong, Elizabeth (Fisher)

Fisher family, 68, 83, 84, 86

Fisher, Jacob (brother of Elizabeth [Fisher] Stong), 83-85

Fisher, Jacob, Jr., 83, 84

Fisher, Jacob, Sr., 84, 86, 199

Fisher, Jake, 199

Fisher, John, 86

fishing, 13–14, 23, 25, 35, 47, 55–57, 78, 80, 99, 102–103, 119, 121, 123, 125–126, 159–162, 172, 179, 182, 184, 188, 191, 212, 217, 219, 233, 236–238, 242–245, 249, 253, 264, 267, 289–290

Fishing Act of 1857, 237

See also Narrows, the (Mnjikaning); salmon

Five Nations, 9, 32, 37, 40, 71–72, 95, 236

See also Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Five Nations or Aienwatha / Hiawatha Wampum, 37

Fort Rouillé

See Fort Toronto

Fort Toronto, 41–42

See also fur trade

forts and trading posts, 17, 35, 41–43, 46, 61, 88, 93, 95–96, 105, 107, 110, 115-116

Francouer, Catherine Mathiasnockoue, 112

fraternal organizations, 277–279

See also Freemasons; Independent Order of Foresters

Freemasons, 277–278

French colonialism and influence, 9, 13–14, 18, 26, 28, 32, 35, 37, 39, 41–43, 45–46, 72, 79–81, 87–88, 112, 115, 133–134, 147–148, 211, 230, 237, 249

See also forts and trading posts; fur trade; Montreal; war and warfare

French royalists, 79–80, 87–88

fur trade, 18, 20, 28, 35, 37, 39, 41–46, 88, 93, 107–115, 118, 121, 149–150, 174, 215

fur traders, 17, 28, 41, 44–47, 64, 66, 93, 107, 109, 111–115, 133, 148–149, 163, 167–168, 184, 270

See also Albany, New York; alcohol; alliances; Baby, Jacques Duperon; Borland, Andrew; Borland & Roe; Fort Toronto; Holland Landing; Humber River (Gebekanaang / Cobekhenonk); intermarriage; Magasin Royal; Montreal; Newmarket; Oswego; Quetton St. George, Laurent (Waubewayquon); Robinson, Peter; Robinson, William; Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste St. John; Rousseau, Jean-Bonaventure; Shepard, Joseph, Sr.; Wade, Ferral

G

Gabekanaang

See Humber River (Gebekanaang / Cobekhenonk)

Ganetsekwyagon, 15, 35

See also Seneca (Onödowa’ga)

Ganiodaio

See Handsome Lake (Ganiodaio)

Gayogo̱ho:nǫ

See Cayuga (Gayogo̱ho:nǫ)

gender roles, 156

See also women

Georgina Island, 165, 208, 217, 251, 265, 289, 290

See also Chippewas—of Georgina Island

German Flatts, 81

gift-giving

See presents

Gill, Jacob, 110, 177, 183, 208

Givins, James, 70, 96, 102, 133, 140–141, 144, 147–148, 159, 161, 169, 174–176, 182, 187–188, 191, 193, 197, 220

Glenelg, Lord (Charles Grant), 140, 190, 196–197, 201, 211, 216

governance, Indigenous, 26, 38, 45, 63, 68, 118, 155, 160, 212, 215–217, 240, 250–251, 253, 255, 257, 259–260, 263, 289

Council Fires, 38–39, 214–215

General Councils, 138, 156, 160, 195, 212, 225-229, 251–257, 259–260, 265, 281

hereditary chiefs, 63, 68, 195, 241, 251, 258, 260, 263, 274

Men’s Councils, 241

Women’s Councils, 241

See also alliances; Anishinaabe(k); Clans; Credit Mission legal code; Haudenosaunee Confederacy; Grand General Council of Ontario; Great Law of Peace; sovereignty

Gradual Civilization Act (1857), 224, 237–238, 240, 243, 250–251, 276

Gradual Enfranchisement Act (1869), 250–251, 273

Grand General Council of Ontario, 251–257, 259–260, 265, 281, 298

See also enfranchisement; Gradual Civilization Act (1857); Indian Act (1876); Jones, Peter Edmund (Kahkewaquonaby); Oronhyatekha (Martin, Peter); Six Nations of the Grand River; Union of Ontario Indians

Grand River, 7, 52, 61, 66, 80, 93, 95, 131, 133, 135–136, 138, 141, 153, 155, 187, 215, 219, 233, 236, 274–275

See also Six Nations of the Grand River

Grand River Navigation Company, 236

Great Law of Peace, 5, 37, 260

Great Peace of Montreal (1701), 36–37

Great Sail, 20–21

“Gunshot Treaty”, 56

See also Johnson-Butler treaties (1787–88)

Gwillimbury (East and West), 87, 103, 288, 290

H

Haldimand Proclamation (1784), 52–53, 219, 232, 292

Haldimand Tract, 61, 67–68, 70, 72, 81, 83, 116, 134, 187, 219, 233, 239, 244, 256, 274, 292

See also Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea); Jones, Augustus; Six Nations of the Grand River; Tekarihogen, Henry

Hale, Horatio, 258, 260

Handsome Lake (Ganiodaio), 67, 134–135

harvesting and gathering, 5, 25, 35, 87, 107, 125, 156, 159, 179, 217, 223, 226, 229, 289

Haudenosaunee, 3, 6–9, 18, 20, 25–26, 28–29, 32, 35–37, 39–40, 42, 51–52, 61, 63–65, 67–68, 70–72, 81, 89, 93, 95–96, 98, 105, 125, 131, 134–135, 155–156, 212, 214–216, 219–220, 233–234, 236, 240–241, 244, 250–253, 257, 260, 265, 274, 277–278, 281, 283, 294

See also agriculture; Haudenosaunee Confederacy; land rights and tenure; Mohawk (Kanien’keha:ka); Six Nations of the Grand River; Tyendinaga

Haudenosaunee Confederacy, 7, 9, 28, 36–37, 51, 63–64, 89, 93, 156, 216, 236, 256–257, 260

Clan Mothers, 63, 81, 241

Royaners (Hereditary Chiefs), 7, 63, 81, 93, 241, 257

See also alliances; Cayuga (Gayogo̱ho:nǫ); Great Law of Peace; Mohawk (Kanien’keha:ka); Oneida (Onyota’a:ka); Onondaga (Onoñda’gega); Seneca (Onödowa’ga); Six Nations of the Grand River; treaties; Tuscarora (Skarù:re); Wampum

Head of the Lake Purchase (Treaty 14), 74, 76, 99, 127

Henry, Alexander, 17

Henry, Sarah

See Tuhbenahneequay

Herkimer, Lawrence, Sr., 163

Herkimer, Lawrence, Jr., 95, 163, 219

Herkimer, William, 162–163, 219

Hill, Susan, 256, 265, 269, 298

Hill, Tayler, 292, 297

historical interpretation, 2, 7–8, 37, 215, 297

historical memory, 5, 298

intergenerational transmission, 5–6,37

Wampum Keepers, 37, 214

See also oral tradition; Wampum

History of the Ojebway Indians, 119, 220, 268

See also Jones, Peter (Kahkewaquonaby / Desagondensta)

Hoeg, Lauri, 126, 265, 269, 288, 290, 294, 297–298

Holland Landing, 20, 22, 62–63, 87, 89, 103, 107–109, 113–116, 127, 147–148, 183–184, 200–203

Holland River, 18, 62, 87, 107, 110, 114, 165, 217

Home District, 61, 123, 180, 200

horticulture, 25, 134

housing, 26, 66, 99, 119, 123, 134–135, 140–141, 144, 147, 156–157, 159, 161, 169, 171–173, 176, 179, 181–182, 188, 196, 204, 207–208, 217, 219, 238, 266, 289, 294

Howe, Joseph, 253

humanitarianism, 104, 140, 165, 195, 235

Humber River (Gebekanaang / Cobekhenonk), 3, 14, 15,18, 23, 26–28, 30–32, 35, 41- 45, 56–57, 76, 79, 96, 107, 119, 124–127, 138, 140, 162–163, 266-267

watershed, 3, 23, 26, 30, 61, 79

See also Toronto Carrying-Place Trail

hunting, 3, 23, 25, 28, 32, 35, 47, 55–56, 99, 102–103, 107, 121, 131, 133–134, 152, 156, 159, 161, 166, 169, 179, 182–183, 187, 189, 191, 193, 200, 203–204, 212, 215, 217, 237–238, 249, 265

hunting territories, 32, 47, 107, 121, 152, 166, 200, 203, 212

Hurlburt, Sylvester, 208

Huron

See Wendat (Huron) and also Lake Huron; Chippewas—of Lakes Huron and Simcoe

Huron-Wendat Nation, 16, 27–28

Huronia, 26, 28, 168

I

Immigration

See settlers and settlement

Independent Order of Foresters, 278

Indian Act (1876), 2, 249, 253–255, 257, 259–261, 263, 276

Indian Department / Indian Affairs administration, 9, 46, 54, 56, 63, 66, 71–72, 78–79, 83, 89, 93, 96, 99, 165, 167–169, 174, 197, 201, 204, 207, 212–213, 219–221, 223, 225, 229–230, 235–236, 240, 242–245, 250–251, 253–254, 257, 259, 263, 271, 275–278, 281

Indian agents, 66, 70, 133, 140–141, 144, 159, 167, 225, 235–237, 240–241, 244, 254, 259, 263–264, 276–278, 282, 285

See also Anderson, Thomas Gummersall; Claus, William; Givins, James; Indian policy; Jarvis, Samuel Peters; Thorburn, David

Indian policy

assimilation, 164–165, 214, 223–225, 235, 237, 254–256, 280

Colonial Office, 104, 204, 211, 220

Darling Report, 165

Indian Advancement Act of 1884, 259, 276

Indian status, 9, 212, 241, 245, 249–250, 253, 257, 277

Pennefather Commission, 236–238

See also Bagot Commission; Bond Head, Francis; civilizational agenda; Colborne, John; enfranchisement; Gradual Civilization Act (1857); Gradual Enfranchisement Act (1869); Indian Act (1876); Indian reserves; Johnson, John; land cessions and agreements; Macdonald, John A.; Maitland, Peregrine; Metcalfe, Charles; Portland, Duke of (William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck); Russell, Peter; residential schools; Simcoe, John Graves; Sydenham, Lord (Charles Poulett Thomson)

Indian reserves, 3, 7, 21, 105, 112, 120, 127, 132, 158, 165, 167, 169-173, 175-176, 181-182, 184, 188-189, 191, 193, 204-207, 209, 212, 214, 217-218, 224, 229-231, 233-234, 236-237, 239-240, 243, 249-251, 253-254, 265, 270-272, 285, 291

Indigenous Christianity, 131-141, 179-180, 216, 256

See also Methodism—Indigenous Methodism; Jones, Peter (Kahkewaquonaby / Desagondensta)

Indigenous spirituality

medicine people, 5, 119, 148, 268, 271, 289, 291, 296

spirit beings, 96, 139, 148

worldview, 1, 22, 132, 137, 162, 256, 267, 290–291

See also Handsome Lake (Ganiodaio); Indigenous Christianity

industrial schools, 224, 229

See also residential schools

intermarriage, 3, 7, 42, 46, 61, 66, 109, 111, 114, 156, 239–240, 273

Iroquoian, 25–26

Iroquois

See Haudenosaunee

J

Jameson, Anna, 190–191

Jarvis, Samuel Peters, 82–83, 116, 191, 193, 201, 203-204, 212–214, 219, 221

Jarvis, William, 83, 90, 116

Johnson, John Smoke (Sakayengwaraton), 97, 214, 219, 254, 258, 260, 274, 281

Johnson, John, 54–55, 58, 76, 89, 277

Johnson, William, 44–45

Johnson-Butler treaties (1787-88), 52, 54-57, 62, 74, 79

See also “Gunshot Treaty”; land cessions and agreements—First “purchase” at Toronto

Jones, Augustus, 53, 61–69, 87, 99,125, 136, 138, 151, 268

See also Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea); Haldimand Tract; Jones, John (Thayandenaged); Jones, Peter (Kahkewaquonaby / Desagondensta); Tekarihogen, Henry; Tekarihogen, Sarah; Tuhbenahneequay; Wahbanosay / Wabenose

Jones, Eliza

See Field, Eliza

Jones, John (Thayandenaged), 63, 66, 99, 120, 138, 145, 159, 163, 219, 221, 240

Jones, Peter (Kahkewaquonaby / Desagondensta), 63, 68, 96, 99, 105, 113, 119–120, 127, 131, 136–140, 143, 145, 147–156, 160, 163–164, 179–180, 187, 195, 197, 211, 213–214, 216–217, 219–220, 223–227, 230–231, 234, 238–240, 254, 256, 266–268, 270, 281

See also Credit Mission; Methodism; missionaries; Mississaugas of the Credit; petitions; Ryerson, Egerton; Victoria, Queen

Jones, Peter Edmund (Kahkewaquonaby), 255–256, 259, 265–266, 268, 270–272, 275, 277, 280, 283

See also enfranchisement; Grand General Council of Ontario; Macdonald, John A.; New Credit

K

Kahkewahquonaby

See Jones, Peter (Kahkewaquonaby / Desagondensta); Jones, Peter Edmund (Kahkewahquonaby)

Kaiser family, 83, 93

Kandoching, 156

Kanien’kehá:ka

See Mohawk (Kanien’kehá:ka) and also Haudenosaunee Confederacy; Six Nations of the Grand River

Kenease

See Canise / Kenease

Kinepinew

See Quinepenon / Kinepinew (Golden Eagle)

King, Carolyn, 35, 125, 140, 233, 245, 265, 288, 293–294

Kingston, 46, 69, 78, 115, 200, 213

kiskisiwin | remembering (film), 2

L

Lake Couchiching, 13, 149, 184, 206

Lake Huron, 7, 15, 20, 35, 46, 54, 69, 79, 93, 95, 115, 143, 168–169, 190, 230

Lake Ontario, 13–14, 17, 20, 25, 28–29, 32, 35, 39, 41, 51–52, 56–57, 61–62, 69, 71, 76, 110, 125, 127, 153, 156, 218, 233

Lake Scugog, 35, 103, 147, 149, 187–188, 218

Lake Simcoe (Ashanyoong / Azhoonyaang), 13–15, 17–18, 20, 26, 28, 35, 54, 57, 62–63, 79–80, 82, 86, 99, 102–103, 105, 107, 109, 113, 115, 117, 123, 143, 145, 147, 150, 152–153, 155, 165, 167, 169, 179, 187–188, 201, 204, 208, 213, 216–217, 221, 230

land cessions and agreements, 52, 54, 57, 61–62, 74, 99, 102, 158, 168–169, 236, 245

Ajetance Treaty (Treaty 19), 99,103

Between the Lakes Treaty (1784), 51–52, 241

Coldwater Treaty, 193–194

Collins Purchase, 54, 57

First “purchase” at Toronto (1787), 52, 54–59, 62, 69, 71–72, 89

Head of the Lake Purchase (Treaty 14), 74, 76, 99, 127

Lake Simcoe Purchase (Treaty 16), 102, 105, 169

Lake Simcoe-Nottawasaga (Treaty 18), 99, 102–103, 169

Manitoulin Island (Treaty 45), 189, 191,

Owen Sound Treaty (Treaty 82), 239

Penetanguishene Purchase of 1798 (Treaty 5), 169

Rice Lake Purchase of 1818 (Treaty 20), 103

Saugeen Peninsula Treaty (Treaty 72), 239

Saugeen Tract (Treaty 45 ½), 191–192, 194, 208, 219, 225, 231

Toronto Purchase of 1805 (Treaty 13), 62–63, 73–76

Treaty 22, 158

Treaty 23, 158

Williams Treaties, 62, 166, 169

See also “Gunshot Treaty”; Haldimand Tract; Johnson-Butler treaties (1787–88)

land claims, 3, 6, 76, 209, 243, 276

See also Chippewa—Tri-Council; Mississaugas of the Credit; Six Nations of the Grand River

land rights and tenure, 140, 187, 197, 237, 239, 294

dispossession, 1, 74, 98, 102–103, 115,132, 197, 231, 239

fee simple, 68, 214

location tickets, 250, 253

Nanfan Deed (1701), 7, 32, 39

settler encroachment (squatters), 6, 99, 147, 179, 188, 191, 206, 212, 219, 233, 239

title deeds, 197, 201, 211, 213–214, 216, 224, 243

See also Gradual Civilization Act (1857); Haldimand Tract; women

languages, Indigenous, 5, 9, 42, 47, 61, 78, 88, 96, 109–111, 134–135, 137, 140, 149, 151–152, 180, 196, 208, 213, 229, 234, 240, 251, 263, 266, 273, 275, 277, 280, 285, 287, 289–290, 295, 297

LaRocca, Kelly, 5, 286, 291, 295–296, 298

Lavallee, Celeste, 112

See also Borland, John

Lavallee, Denis David, 112

Lawson, Sherry, 1, 77, 207, 226, 287, 298

Lines, Nathaniel, 57–58

literacy

See education

logging, 119, 123, 127, 182, 217, 236

See also environmental change—deforestation

London, England, 197, 211, 223, 241

London, Ontario, 219, 225, 230, 271, 276

Longhouse religion

See Handsome Lake (Ganiodaio); Indigenous Spirituality

Lower Canada (Canada East / Quebec), 27–28, 77, 89, 112, 200, 220, 224, 249

Loyalists, 45, 51, 62, 68, 77, 79, 81, 89, 105, 115–117, 274

M

Macdonald, John A., 254, 273, 276–277

Mackenzie, William Lyon, 199–200

Magasin Royal, 41

See also fur trade

Maitland, Peregrine, 133, 141, 144

Manitoulin Island, 189, 191, 194–195, 204, 208, 245

manual-labour schools, 223, 225, 229

See also education; residential schools

Markham, 82–83

marriage, 35, 45, 61, 63–64, 67, 111–114, 159, 256, 259

loss of status for marrying out, 237–238, 240-241, 245, 250, 253-254, 257

See also intermarriage

Martin, George, 93, 231, 233, 244, 254, 274

Martin, George Henry, 134, 274

Martin, Peter

See Oronhyatekha (Martin, Peter)

Martin’s Corner School, 274

mastodon, 23–24

Matchedash, 17–18, 20, 52, 54, 57, 102, 153, 165, 167–169, 187, 217

Matchedash Tract, 102, 168–169

McLean, James, 127, 244

medicinal plants, 66, 265, 268–272

medicine, Indigenous, 66, 156, 266, 268–272

medicine person / healer, 5, 119, 148, 265, 268–269, 271–272, 289, 291, 296

See also medicinal plants

Mesquacosy, 63, 270

Metcalfe, Charles, 225

Methodism, 46, 64, 113, 117, 132–141, 143–144, 149–153, 155–157, 162–163, 167, 175, 179–180, 194–197, 216, 234, 256

camp meetings, 3, 136, 143–147, 149, 179

Episcopal Methodists, 64, 133, 138, 167, 179

Indigenous Methodism, 113, 136–141, 143–149, 151, 153–155, 157, 161, 163, 179, 197, 213

Newmarket Branch Missionary Society, 141

Toronto Circuit, 155

Wesleyan Methodists, 153, 155, 167, 194, 216

Yonge Street Circuit, 143

See also Crawford, Seth; Credit Mission; Indigenous Christianity; Jones, John (Thayandenaged); Jones, Peter (Kahkewaquonaby / Desagondensta); missionaries; Ryerson, Egerton; Sunday, John (Shawundais)

Michi Saagiig

See Mississaugas

militia, 42, 81, 87, 93, 95, 98, 118, 200–201, 203

milling, 82–83, 109, 114–115, 119, 122–123, 125–127, 176, 181–182, 189, 196, 199, 201, 203, 219, 279, 297

gristmills, 123, 126–127, 172, 176–177, 183, 196–197

See also sawmills

missionaries, 3, 7, 105, 113, 117, 127, 132–133, 136, 139–141, 143, 145, 147, 149–160, 163, 167, 175, 179–180, 189, 194–196, 207–208, 216, 218–219, 223–224, 226–227, 230, 235–236, 238–239, 241, 254, 256, 271, 275, 281–282

missionary societies, 147, 149, 153

See also Catholics; Church of England; Credit Mission; Indigenous Christianity; Methodism

Mississauga-Haudenosaunee alliance of the 1790s, 71–72

Mississaugas, 2, 5–7, 9, 18, 20, 26, 31–33, 35, 37, 41–42, 44, 46, 51–52, 54–57, 59, 61–64, 68–74, 76–78, 80–81, 83, 95–97, 99, 101–103, 105, 109, 113, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 131, 133, 136–141, 144–145, 147, 150, 152–153, 155–167, 169, 187–189, 192, 197, 200–201, 203–204, 211–214, 218–219, 225, 228, 231–234, 239–240, 243–245, 249–250, 254, 259, 263–267, 270–272, 276–277, 283, 285–286, 288–289, 291, 293, 296–298

Mississaugas of Scugog Island, 2, 5, 7, 35, 56, 103, 109, 153, 187–188, 213, 218, 226, 230, 251, 259, 263–265, 289, 291, 296–298

See also Balsam Lake

Mississaugas of the Credit, 2, 5–7, 32, 35, 56, 61, 72, 74, 76, 101, 127, 131, 138, 140, 144, 152, 157, 159–160, 163, 167, 169, 187–188, 192, 197, 213, 218–219, 231, 233–234, 239, 244, 271–272, 285–286, 293, 297

Wabakinine, 52, 55–56, 69–71, 131

Wabbicommicot, 44

See also Anishinaabe(k); Credit Mission; Jones, Peter (Kahkewaquonaby / Desagondensta); Jones, Peter Edmund (Kahkewaquonaby) land cessions and agreements; land rights and tenure; Mississauga-Haudenosaunee alliance of the 1790s; New Credit; petitions; Pokquan; Pontiac’s War; Sawyer, Joseph (Nawahjekezhegwabe); War of 1812

Mitchell, Andrew, 184

Mitchell, Elizabeth, 168

mixed heritage, 163, 224

See also intermarriage

Mnjikaning

See Narrows, the (Mnjikaning); Orillia; Tkaranto

Mohawk (Kanien’keha:ka), 9, 13, 28, 51–52, 57, 61, 63–64, 66, 81, 83, 89, 133–136, 138, 153, 187, 190, 214–215, 219, 224, 226, 228, 251, 256, 258, 262–263, 267–268, 273–275, 280

See also Haudenosaunee Confederacy; Six Nations of the Grand River

Mohawk Chapel, 134

Mohawk Institute, 224, 262–263, 274–275

See also residential schools

Mohawk Valley, 81

Montgomery’s Tavern, 199

Monthly Review Devoted to the Civil Government of the Canadas, 220

Montreal, 28, 36–37, 39, 41, 107, 110, 118, 174, 215

Monture, Phil, 39–40, 51, 95, 219, 236, 260–261, 285, 289, 294, 298

Mount Elgin Industrial School, 230

See also industrial schools; residential schools

Mud Lake, 56, 109, 188, 216, 218, 265

Munceytown, 216, 219, 225, 230

Munsee-Delaware, 153, 251

Murdoch, Chandra, 252, 254–255, 276, 298

Muskoka, 18, 20, 41, 107, 112, 217, 286

Musquakie (William Yellowhead), 38–39, 96, 102, 107, 117, 149, 167, 171–172, 174, 179, 181–183, 188–189, 191, 193, 203, 206-208, 213–217, 227–229

Musquakie (Yellowhead), 62, 96

N

Nahnebahwequay (Sutton, Catherine), 219, 238–245, 266

Nainigishkung, 200

Nanaboozhoo, 22

Nanebeaujou, 45

Nanfan Deed (1701), 7, 32, 39

See also Haudenosaunee; land claims; land rights and tenure

Nanigishking, Thomas, 95, 269

Nanigishkung, Emerson Benson, 21–23, 95, 103, 155, 181, 213, 229, 298

Narrows, the (Mnjikaning), 13–14, 17, 35, 39, 88, 105, 107, 110, 113, 153, 165, 167, 169–170, 172–175, 177, 179–180, 182–184, 188–189, 191, 193, 196–197, 204, 206, 208, 215, 225

See also Orillia; Tkaronto

Nawahjekezhegwabe

See Sawyer, Joseph (Nawahjekezhegwabe)

Nawash, 209, 239–242

Negenaunaquot

See Big Shilling (Negenauanaquot)

Nehkik (Otter), 82–83

See also Jarvis, Samuel Peters

Neolin, 139

Neutrals (Attawandaron), 25–26, 28

New Credit, 7, 163, 203, 230, 232–234, 239, 265, 268, 271–273, 276, 278

See also Mississaugas of the Credit

New England Company, 274

New France, 18, 44, 81

See also French colonialism and influence

New York City, 149

New York State (formerly Colony), 28, 51, 61, 81, 266

Newcastle, Duke of (Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton), 241–245

Newhouse, Seth, 260

Newmarket, 79, 104, 107–118, 121, 127, 141, 143, 155, 171, 201, 270

Niagara, 15, 17, 44, 61, 69, 81, 83, 88–89, 93, 95, 125, 127, 201, 224

Nimquasim, 69

North York Historical Society, 86

Norton, John, 95

O

Odaawaa (Ottawa), 9, 25, 180, 259, 273

See also Anishinaabe(k)

Ohio Valley, 87, 189

Ojibwe, 9, 86, 180, 191

See also Anishinaabe(k)

Old Sail, 20

Oneida (Onyota’a:ka), 9, 81, 153, 219

See also Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Onödowa’ga

See Seneca (Onödowa’ga)

Onoñda’gega

See Onondaga (Onoñda’gega)

Onondaga (Onoñda’gega), 9, 214

See also Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Ontario, 1, 7, 13–14, 28, 32–33, 52, 61 100, 103, 105, 116, 120–121, 208, 215 220, 225, 230, 249–250, 262, 274, 276–278, 283, 294, 298

See also Canada West; Grand General Council of Ontario; Lake Ontario; Union of Ontario Indians; Upper Canada

Onyota’a:ka

See Oneida (Onyota’a:ka)

oral tradition, 5, 32, 35, 37, 86, 220, 268

See also historical memory; Wampum

Orillia, 3, 32, 169, 171, 175, 183, 193, 225, 227, 229, 281

See also Narrows, the (Mnjikaning)

Oro Township, 105

Oronhyatekha (Martin, Peter), 93, 233, 244, 254, 257, 265–266, 268, 271, 273–281, 283

See also fraternal organizations; Grand General Council of Ontario; Independent Order of Foresters; Mohawk Institute; Oxford University; Royal Tour of 1860; Temple Building

Oshawa, 7, 109

Oswego, 41–42

Ottawa (city), 253–254, 259, 273

Ottawa (Odaawaa)

See Odaawaa (Ottawa)

Ottawa River, 41

Owen Sound, 225, 230–231, 239

Oxford University, 275

See also Oronhyatekha (Martin, Peter)

P

Palatine Germans

See settlers and settlement—German settlers

Parsons site, 26

Peace treaties, 83

See also Dish with One Spoon Wampum; Great Peace of Montreal (1701); Treaty of Ghent; Treaty of Niagara; Treaty of Paris

Penetanguishene, 20, 26, 102–103, 105, 107, 112, 119, 147, 169, 171, 180, 184

Penetanguishene Purchase (Treaty 5), 169

Penn, William, 79, 83, 87

Pennefather Commission, 236–237

Pennefather, Richard, 236

Pennsylvania, 3, 66, 68, 81–83, 86–89, 110

Pennsylvania Germans

See settlers and settlement—German settlers

Peterborough, 35, 109, 115, 153

petitions, 20, 161, 182, 189, 191, 194–197, 201, 204, 207, 211, 213, 216, 238, 242–244, 253, 257, 260, 277

Pierpoint, Richard, 89

Playter, George, 117, 138, 145, 147

Pledge of the Crown Wampum, 96

Pokquan, 51

Pontiac’s War, 44

Port Credit, 127

Port Perry, 218

portages, 7, 14–15, 17–18, 20, 28, 35, 41, 54, 107, 109, 169, 172, 227

See also canoe; Humber River (Gebekanaang / Cobekhenonk); Toronto Carrying-Place Trail; transportation

Portland, Duke of (William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck), 70–71

Potagunasees (Bootaaganasiig), 169, 172

Potawatomi (Bodewadmi), 9, 166, 200, 259

Powell, William Dummer, 116

presents, 20, 39, 45, 55–56, 69–72, 86, 95, 98–99, 131, 138, 140–141, 147–148, 159, 161, 165, 167–168, 174, 190, 213, 224–225, 235, 237, 244

See also alcohol; alliances; fur trade

Prince of Wales (Albert Edward), 242–244, 275

Puhgashkis(h), 63, 96

Q

Quakers (Society of Friends), 79, 83, 87, 241

Quebec, 27–28, 77, 112, 220, 249

See also Lower Canada (Canada East / Quebec)

Queen’s Rangers, 62, 71, 88

Quetton St. George, Laurent (Waubewayquon), 88, 115

Quinepenon / Kinepinew (Golden Eagle), 76, 121, 125, 131, 266

R

railway, 212, 285

Rama, Chippewas of

See Chippewas—of Rama

Rebellion of 1837, 197, 199–203, 211

reciprocity, 20, 45, 86, 233, 278

See also presents

religion, 67, 121, 135, 148, 155, 157, 159, 208, 229, 231, 234, 285

See also Christianity; Indigenous spirituality

removal policy, 167, 189–90, 195–197, 200, 204, 224, 227

See also Bond Head, Francis

residential schools, 230, 256, 263–264, 280–281

See also education; industrial schools; manual-labour schools; Mohawk Institute; Mount Elgin Industrial School

revitalization movements, 139

Rice Lake, 32, 103, 153, 163, 189, 216, 224, 268

Rice Lake Purchase (Treaty 20), 103

Robinson Huron Treaty, 117

Robinson Superior Treaty, 117

Robinson, Christopher, 114–115

Robinson, John Beverley, 116

Robinson, Peter, 93, 114–116, 127, 133, 184

Robinson, William, 114, 116–117, 193

Roe, William, 109–111, 113, 171, 173–174, 270

See also Borland & Roe

Rogers, Timothy, 87

Rouge River, 15, 28, 35, 41

Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste St. John, 45, 93

Rousseau, Jean-Bonaventure, 45

Royal Proclamation of 1763, 67, 70, 189, 191, 239, 249

Royal Tour of 1860, 242–244

Russell, Peter, 69–70, 72, 78, 87, 89–90, 268

Ryerson, Egerton, 143–144, 149, 157, 159, 196, 216, 223, 229, 268, 270

S

Sakayengwaraton

See Johnson, John Smoke (Sakayengwaraton)

salmon, 57, 80, 125, 127, 145, 161–162, 218–219

See also fishing

Sandy, Marcie, 4, 297

Saugeen Ojibwe, 191

Saugeen Peninsula Treaty (Treaty 72), 239

Saugeen Tract, 191–192, 194, 208, 219, 225, 231

Saugeen Tract Treaty 45 ½, 191–192

Sault, Garry, 96, 234, 243, 264, 270–272, 285, 298

Sault, Margaret, 5–6, 18, 56, 72, 164, 250, 277, 286, 298

sawmills, 83, 123, 125, 127, 159, 172, 177, 182–183, 197, 208, 218, 233

Sawyer, David (Kezhegowinninne), 137, 219, 239, 242, 267

Sawyer, Joseph (Nawahjekezhegwabe), 149, 160, 213, 219, 221, 228, 239

Sayre, Esther, 114

Scarborough, 62, 83, 93

schools

See education—schools

Scott, Duncan Campbell, 254, 276

Scugog Island, Mississaugas of, 2, 5, 7, 107, 187–189, 213, 218, 259, 263–264, 289, 291, 296–297

Seneca (Onödowa’ga), 9, 15, 26, 28, 31–32, 35, 41, 67, 116, 134, 219

villages in Toronto area, 15, 28, 32, 35, 41, 46

See also Haudenosaunee Confederacy; Six Nations of the Grand River

settlers and settlement, 1–3, 7–8, 13, 20–23, 45, 47, 51, 55, 59, 61–62, 64, 67–72, 74, 76–84, 87–90, 93, 95, 98–99, 103–105, 110–111, 113, 116–121, 123, 125–127, 131–134, 136, 139–141, 143, 152–153, 155–156, 159, 164–165, 167, 169, 171–173, 175–176, 179–184, 188–189, 191, 195–197, 199–201, 204, 206, 209, 211–212, 216–220, 224–227, 231, 233, 235–236, 238, 241, 249, 253, 255–256, 260, 263–270, 274, 276, 281, 285, 288, 292, 294–295, 298

American settlers, 77–79, 103,118

Black settlers, 79, 89–90, 105, 116

British settlers, 77, 79, 89, 103–105, 117, 195, 199

German settlers, 68, 79, 81–83, 89

See also Loyalists

Seven Years War, 42

Shawundais

See Sunday, John (Shawundais)

Shepard, Joseph, Sr. 45, 93, 199–200

Shepard, Joseph, Jr., 200

Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma, 13, 18, 29–21, 58–59, 66, 78

Simcoe, John Graves, 13, 18, 20, 57–58, 77, 83, 90, 114, 123, 165

Six Nations of the Grand River, 2, 4–5, 7–9, 32, 35, 39–40, 42, 45, 51–53, 63, 68, 70–72, 80, 95–97, 115, 153, 189, 201, 215–216, 219–220, 226, 231–234, 236, 238, 244, 251, 253, 256–258, 260–261, 273–275, 277, 285, 289, 292, 294, 297–298

disclaimer, 8, 311n16

See also American Revolution; Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea); Buck, John (Skanawiti); Grand General Council of Ontario; Haldimand Proclamation; Haldimand Tract; Haudenosaunee; Haudenosaunee Confederacy; Indian Act (1876); Johnson, John Smoke (Sakayengwaraton); Martin, George; Mississauga-Haudenosaunee alliance of the 1790s; Mohawk Institute; Tekarihogen, Henry; War of 1812

Skanawiti

See Buck, John (Skanawiti)

Skandatut, 26

slavery and slave trade, 44, 47, 89–90, 105, 115, 140, 196

abolition, 90, 105

Smith, Donald B., 298

Snache, Kory, 14, 39, 57, 79, 87, 90, 107, 109, 149, 155, 167, 209, 289

Snache, Vicki, 6, 26, 165, 179, 264, 289, 291–292, 298

Snake Island, 121, 167, 193, 203, 209, 217, 221, 226, 269

Snake, Joseph, 144, 149, 165, 167, 174, 208, 213, 217, 228, 240

Snake, William, 113, 149

Snake, Ryerson, 149

Society for Converting and Civilizing the Indians, 181

Society of Friends

See Quakers (Society of Friends)

sovereignty, 39, 132, 160, 179, 214, 220, 238, 252–253, 256, 260, 263, 277, 284

See also governance, Indigenous

spirituality, Indigenous

See Indigenous spirituality

squatters

See land rights and tenure—settler encroachment

Squires, Philemon, 113, 174

Stennett, Miles, 201, 203, 208

Stevens, Matthew, 217, 288–289, 292, 294, 297–298

Stewart, John, 133

Stong, Daniel, 1, 3, 86, 93, 199–200

Stong, Elizabeth (Fisher), 3, 45, 85, 199–200

Strachan, John, 117, 140

Sunday, John (Shawundais), 143, 162, 213, 216–217, 226, 256, 281

surveying, 52, 56–57, 61–62, 66, 68, 127, 171, 231, 298

See also Jones, Augustus

Sutton, Catherine

See Nahnebahwequay (Sutton, Catherine)

Sutton, William, 239

Sydenham, Lord (Charles Poulett Thomson), 211–212

Sylvestre, Jean-Baptiste, 112–113

T

Tanikawabononkoua, 113

Taugaiwinini, 188, 201

teachers

See education—teachers

Tecumseh, 95, 98, 139, 189

Teiaiagon, 15, 28, 32, 41, 46

See also Seneca (Onödowa’ga)

Tekarihogen, Henry, 66–68, 134

Tekarihogen, Sarah, 63, 65–66, 136, 268

Telford, Rhonda, 204

Temple Building, 279–280, 283

Thayendanegea

See Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea)

Thayendenaged

See Jones, John (Thayandenaged)

Thorburn, David, 238

Thornhill, 79, 82, 127

Tkaranto, 13

See also Narrows, the (Mnjikaning)

Tobeco, James, 163

Toronto (city and region), 1–4, 7, 11, 13–14, 17 , 23–24, 26–28, 32, 37, 41–42, 44, 52, 54–59, 61–62, 68–69, 72, 76, 80, 86–89, 96, 99, 104–105, 107, 117, 120, 122, 127, 147, 149–150, 155, 168–169, 184, 190, 193–194, 196, 199–200, 203, 211–213, 215, 234–236, 239, 242–243, 249–250, 261, 265–268, 270–272, 275–276, 278–282, 285, 288, 293, 295, 297–298

newspapers, 65, 89, 152, 241, 255, 280

See also Fort Toronto; land cessions and agreements—First “purchase” at Toronto (1787);

Toronto Carrying-Place Trail; Toronto Purchase of 1805; Temple Building; York; Yonge Street

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, 1, 27, 85, 123, 297

Toronto Carrying-Place Trail, 11, 14–18, 20, 26, 28, 32, 35, 41–42, 54, 63, 76, 102, 107, 109, 165, 169, 172

Toronto Normal School, 229

Toronto Purchase Land Claim (2010), 76

Toronto Purchase of 1787

See Johnson-Butler treaties (1787-88); land cessions and agreements—First “purchase” at Toronto (1787)

Toronto Purchase of 1805 (Treaty 13), 62–63, 73–76

See also land cessions and agreements—First “purchase” at Toronto (1787); York

Toronto School of Medicine, 275

trade

See fur trade

traditionalists, 67–68, 131, 135, 155, 162–163, 216, 272, 289

Trail of Tears, 212

transportation, 3, 7, 87, 105, 107, 109, 113

See also canoe; boats and ships; Coldwater Road; portages; railway; Yonge Street

trauma, 5, 47, 131–132, 137, 266–267, 288

treaties, 6–7, 20, 32, 35, 37–40, 44, 51–52, 54, 56–57, 61–63, 74–76, 83, 95, 98–103, 105, 117, 121, 127, 131, 157–158, 161, 166, 169, 191–194, 214–215, 224, 238–239, 241, 243–244, 249–251, 254–255, 257, 259, 293–294, 298

See also alliances; Haldimand Proclamation; land cessions and agreements; land rights: Nanfan Deed (1701); peace treaties; names of individual treaties

Treaty of Niagara, 15, 17, 44, 224

See also alliances

treaty rights, 6, 32, 238, 254

Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 230

Tuhbenahneequay (Henry, Sarah), 63–64, 66, 137, 273

Tunkers, 87

Twenty-Four Nations Wampum, 44

Two Row Wampum, 252

Tyendinaga, 153, 226, 228, 260, 274, 277

U

Union of Ontario Indians, 260

United Bands Movement, 259

United Empire Loyalists, 79, 89

See also Loyalists

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 261

United States, 45, 51, 77, 79, 87, 105, 131–133, 152–153, 167, 189, 199–200, 212, 223, 259, 280

See also American Revolution; Loyalists; Rebellion of 1837; Upper Canada; War of 1812

University of Toronto, 2, 80, 192, 271, 297–298

Upper Canada, 13, 18, 57, 61, 65, 69–70, 77, 80–81, 87, 89–90, 99, 103–105, 115, 117–119, 131, 133–134, 140, 143, 152–153, 164–165, 167, 169, 173, 187, 189, 195–196, 199, 211, 219, 229, 266, 270, 276–277

administration, 76, 81–82, 99, 115–118, 131, 167, 199, 223, 225

See also Canada West; clergy reserves; Indian department and Indian administration; Indian policy; Ontario; Russell, Peter; settlers and settlement; Simcoe, John Graves; slavery and slave trade

Upper Canada College, 266, 270

Upper Canada Rebellion

See Rebellion of 1837

V

Vaughan, 83, 105, 123, 127, 199

Victoria, Queen, 211, 213–214, 238–239

Imperial Declaration (1847), 239

See also Jones, Peter (Kahkewaquonaby / Desagondensta); Nahnebahwequay (Sutton, Catherine)

Village at Black Creek, The (formerly Black Creek Pioneer Village), 1–5, 45, 84–85, 93, 123, 160, 295, 297

W

Wabakinine, 52, 55–56, 69–71, 131

Wabanip, 69, 71

Wabbicommicot, 44

Wade, Ferral, 45

Wahbanosay / Wabenose, 62–63, 96, 131, 140

Wampum, 7, 35–39, 44–45, 64, 71, 96, 148, 211, 214–215, 235, 238, 251–253, 258

See also Circle Wampum; Covenant Chain Wampum; Dish with One Spoon Wampum; Eternal Council Fires or Yellowhead Wampum; Five Nations or Aienwatha / Hiawatha Wampum; Pledge of the Crown Wampum; Twenty-Four Nations Wampum; Two Row Wampum

war and warfare, 3, 6–7, 15, 32, 37, 39, 42, 44, 51, 57, 69, 78–79, 81, 83, 88–89, 93–99, 102–105, 109, 113–114, 127, 131–133, 135, 138, 189, 199, 202, 206, 235, 238, 241, 250, 274, 283–284, 288, 291, 294

See also American Revolution; Beaver Wars; Pontiac’s War; Seven Years War; War of 1812

War of 1812, 3, 79, 83, 89, 93–95, 97–99, 102–103, 105, 109, 113, 131, 199, 206, 235, 274, 283–284

See also Battle of York

Wazhushk (muskrat), 22, 121, 264

Wendat (Huron), 3–4, 14, 18, 25–28, 31–32, 35

See also Wyandot

Wesleyan Methodists

See Methodism—Wesleyan Methodists

Western Alliance, 70

Whitchurch, 83, 87, 116

white supremacy, 105

wild rice, 23, 87, 188, 240

Williams Treaties, 62, 166, 169

Willson, David, 87

See also Quakers (Society of Friends)

Windham settlement, 88

women, 8, 17, 46, 52, 66, 76, 78, 81, 89, 105, 111–112, 115–116, 127, 134, 145, 150, 156, 159, 168, 172, 217, 221, 224, 237–238, 240–241, 243–244, 249–250, 253–254, 257, 259, 268–269, 272–273, 277, 289

See also gender roles; intermarriage; marriage—loss of status for marrying out; Nahnebahwequay (Sutton, Catherine)

Wyandot, 28, 70, 133

See also Wendat (Huron)

Wybenga, Darin, 5–6, 32, 42, 51, 57, 62, 76, 95, 102, 137, 153, 159, 163, 203, 218, 231, 234, 297–298

Y

Yellowhead

See Musquakie (Yellowhead); Musquakie (William Yellowhead)

Yellowhead Wampum

See Eternal Council Fires Wampum

Yonge Street, 3, 18, 20, 62–63, 79, 82–83, 87–88, 103, 107, 115, 118, 126–127, 143, 145, 157, 171, 199–200

camp meetings, 3, 143–147

Circuit, 143

York, 13, 18, 20–21, 45–46, 49, 52, 57, 59, 61–63, 69-70, 78–79, 81–82, 88–90, 93, 95–98, 104–105, 107, 109–110, 113–116, 118, 121, 126, 131, 133, 141, 143–145,150, 152, 155–157, 160, 165, 171, 174, 188, , 236, 267

County, 83, 86–87, 199, 236

founding of, 18, 21

militia, 93

See also Battle of York; Toronto

York Bible Society, 133

York County, 83, 86–87, 199, 236

York, Duke of (Prince Frederick), 13

York University, 2, 26, 297–298

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