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Oshkimaadzig Unity Camp - Uniting the New People

by Steve da Silva - BASICS Free Community Newsletter

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The word "Oshkimaadzig" refers to the "New People" of the Seven Fires Anishinaabek Prophecy, the people who were prophesied to be the ones who would pick up the remnants of their traditional ways of life and values long repressed by colonialism, and by reclaiming these values they will begin to unite all peoples for the survival of humanity and Mother Earth.

 
Oshkimaadzig Unity Camp is located in traditional Wendat ("Huron") land, and since the genocidal dispersal of the Wendat by the French and the wars that forced them to flee the area in the mid 17th century, the Anishinaabe have been the keepers of the eastern door, recognized by the Three Fires Confederacy (Odawa, Potawatamie, and Ojibwe).  This land also falls within a number of treaties amongst indigenous people and between indigenous nations and European settlers, including the Two Row Wampum, the 'One Dish, One Spoon' Treaty, the Beaver Belt, the Haudenosaunee-Anishinaabek Friendship Belt, the 1764 Fort Niagara Silver Chain Covenant, and the 24 Nations Belt.
 
Oshkimaadzig Unity Camp is located in 'Awenda Provincial Park' two hours north of Toronto in the Penetanguishene Peninsula and is by the Anishinabek Confederacy to Invoke Our Nationhood (ACTION), Oshkimaadzig.org, a member organization of the Canadian chapter of the International League of People's Struggles.
 
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