Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Cultural Studies -
Canada, grade: A+, University of Trento, course: Indigenous history,
language: English, abstract: The community used in the essay is that
found around the University campus of Trent University located in 1600 W
Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON K9L OG2, Canada. Trent campus in
Peterborough is one of the native territories of the Anishinaabe - a
group of Indigenous people who are made up of the Odawa, Ojibwa,
Potawatomi, Mississauga, Delaware, Chippewa, and Algonquin communities
who had control of the Great Lakes Basin since the early periods of the
1600s. Before the land became known as Peterborough, the name of the
area was Nogojiwanong, which means a place at the end of the rapids in
the Ojibwa language. The language, which was widely spoken by the
Indigenous people in the community, before replacement of the cultural
and Indigenous language practices with Christianity and the English
language, was Anishinaabemowin. Through the process of land claims and
the treaties, the Curve Lake First Nation, Hiawatha First Nation,
Mississaugas of Scugog First Nation and Alderville First Nation had
established their communities in the Trent campus area. The various
nations indicated above officially refer to themselves as the
Mississaugas. The community we live in and the lands we live is a
homeland to diverse and many Indigenous groups who continue to live in
Canada. The main crux of the essay is to research the history of the
community as a means of illuminating the Indigenous presence - both
historical and contemporary. The essay explores the history of the whole
group of the Anishanaabeg in Great Lakes and then delves into the
Mississaugas of the Hiawatha First Nation, a sub-tribe of the
Anishinaabe speaking First Nations. The essay starts with the history of
Aboriginals.
