This website provides information to the public on the activities of the Taiaiako’n Historical Preservation Society and their work to protect sites of significance to Indigenous peoples in Toronto. The site is a vast collection of documentation of archeological significance, media debate, events listings, and updates on the progress being done to restore and protect the mounds located around the Humber River and High Park. The site hopes to inform people as to a more comprehensive history of the land known as “Toronto,” one that is inclusive of and engages Indigenous peoples history and discussion. Working to develop this knowledge can only help reconnect to the land and the realities we face as a so-called “post-colonial” society, and one that is failing to respect mother earth in this time of global environmental threat.
Jurisdiction
** Notice confirming stance of Six Nations Confederacy, through the designated hereditary chief ( not band council chief) Arnold General, Beaver Clan, Onondaga Nation, the 1701 Peace Treaty of Montreal and Nanfan Treaty covers the land area that mounds in High Park are in. There is no line of demarcation between the Mississaugas and Six Nations at the Humber. The Six Nations chiefs and clanmothers are the ones who hold any jurisdiction of this issue because they are also the lead signers and negotiators of those treaties with the colonialists. There is no mention of the Mississauga of having their own chief signing that treaty, therefore any discussions, arrangements and etc. must be made with the Six Nations Clanmothers, Chiefs, and their extended arm, in dealing with this issue, THPS. It has been stated by the Six Nations Confederacy that the Mississauguas will need to consult with Cayuga Nation, which has been holding the Mississaugas wampum since 1782. It is improper for the City of Toronto to be holding back door discussions with the Mississaugas over the issues in High Park and it maybe that some of the recent decisions of the city to bulldoze the site and put a fence around was part of the back door discussions with the Mississaugas. We will hopefully be able to confirm that with the city on Tuesday, when we meet with them. If that is the case, and find that city has been making plans for the High Park Mounds, before consulting THPS, Six Nations Confederacy and others who are supporting the defense of the land and the ancestors, will not bode well with the Confederacy on any futures issues that Mississauga seek assistance from . This is one of the reasons why many of our people have not shown their support that they would like to is because of the “fraudulent Mississaussuga land claim of Toronto” as they are offended by it and also know that it is a violation of the Great Law of the Six Nations Confederacy and is also a violation of treaties made in 1701 and after. A land claim legally does not establish ownership or sovereign rights of the land, instead, relinquishes those rights once monetary compensation is received. Therefore the Mississauga Land Claim in Toronto is a business transaction that has now been completed, therefore according to the chiefs and clanmothers at Six Nations that have been consulted about this issue, have stated that the Mississauga have sold out any sovereign rights that they thought they had. All the other 39 nations who did not sign on to the Mississauga land claim, still have their sovereign rights intact under the 1701 . The Clamothers in 2009, had asked us to “preserve and protect” all of the sacred sites in High Park ” at all costs” , and that we will do.
Further note, there are no confirmed Mississauga burials in the Toronto area, and the mounds at High Park or Magwood Park have no relationship to the Mississauga or Algonquian language family as they were not builders of ceremonial or burial mounds. Mounds elsewhere that have been erronously labeled as Algonquian or Ojibwa are in fact insitu Iroquoian . Thefore the Mississaugas can not claim the mounds as theirs in order to support their fraudulent land claim.**
According to the Office of the Ontario Ministry of Culture, there are NO Mississauaga burial sites located and confirmed in the Toronto area. We also found out that the Mississauga’s are trying to claim the Seneca-Mohawk village of Taiaiako’n as their own.
No Mississauga village was ever located at the site of the Seneca-Mohawk village of Taiaiako’n. They did have a village a located across the Humber River in 1788, 100 years after the massacre at Taiaiako’n by the French. Since there is a 10 acre burial ground located on the village site itself, no one ever lived there afterwords,not even Baby himself. The first residences built on the site of the village of Taiaiako’n, was in 1916.
The Mississaugas have no valid claim to the Toronto area, especially since they don’t have any confirmed ancestors buried here such as do the Erie/Neutral, Wendat and Six Nations. Therefore Taiaiako’n, the Thunderbird Mound, and the Bear Mound are Six Nations Confederacy issues.
Fraudulent Mississauga Land Claim and City of Toronto
1701 Signers of Peace Treaty of Montreal
Gun Shot Treaty from Bay of Quinte to County of York
Letter from Six Nations Confederacy-Mohawk Mens Council
“An Onkwehonwe in Kanada-Listen all of you” – Toronto is Tkaronto, it’s a Mohawk Word.
Important Links:
Please sign the petition to help stop the proposed BMX Park in High Park.
No BMX Park in High Park Petition
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http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/archaeology/
http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/archaeology/ron-williamson-not-a-licensed-archaeologist/
http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/burial-mounds/history/
http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/burial-mounds/magwood-park-thunderbird-mound/
http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/gallery/
http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/gary-mchale/
http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/media/
http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/media/supportive-media/
Rebuttal to ASI and Ron Williamsons Report on Snake Mound
http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/recent-activities/
http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/snake-mound-reconstruction-2011/
http://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/taiaiakon/
New Friends of Snake Mound Facebook Page
Hokan-Siouan Language Family Ancestral to Mound Builders
Map of Hokan-Siouan Language Family
McKees Rock Mound Ancestral to Iroquoian People
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Safe Harbour Site not Algonquin or Delaware
Proof of Giants found in Mounds
Proof of In Situ Iroquoian Burials Serpent Mounds and Petroglyphs are of Iroquoian Origin
Request to Stop BMX/ Skills Park in High Park by THPS, FOSM and Six Nations Grandmothers
New Rabble Article By Kim Jackson
Videos:
Snake Mound Video Aug. 28, 2010
Toronto Police Scott Mills Video in Support of Snake Mound Restoration
Eye See the Positive Video Series by Jeff Howard on Snake Mound
Proof of Giants in Mounds Part 2
Proof of Giants in Mounds Part 3
Proof of Giants in Mounds Part 4
Proof of Giants in Mounds Part 5
Proof of Giants in Mounds Part 6
Village of Taiaiako'n
Erie Map
I would like to see more about the legal aspects of what is happening on the site. I think that we should set the whole issue in its context: indigenous, legal, social, and environmenta. I would be willing to write up some environmental reports.
Peace
If you are willing to write up some reports that would be amazing…As I come across legal info I am posting it. There is a couple of interesting articles written about the legal issues of Aboriginal burial sites now on the Links and Legal info pages.
email me any articles and I will post.
all the best,
Kim
Thanks for putting all this information together. I had read about the mounds a few weeks ago, but the article wasn’t much on detail. I’ll add a reference to these mounds when I do my next update. Thanks again.
Hi Ahni, thanks for the comment, I really appreciate your work.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us.
LKJ
as a non native i am very pleased that this sacred land is fianally being treated the way it should. I deplore some of the very insensitive comments posted on the Toronto Star website today in relation to an article they have posted.
Peace to us all.
tb
Border the task of documenting finds there and protecting the mounds and attempting to get Toronto officials to designate this mound and others historically significant sites so that they may be restored and protected..In order to accomplish these in his view sacred and essential tasks Rastiatanon ha and others have established the with the sole mandate of restorating and preserving Thunderbird Mound at Magwood Park Toronto and those burial mounds and sites of significance in High Park..In the society of the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee People of the Longhouse a consensual decision-making process involves all of the 50 clans contained in the Six Nations of The Confederacy. They sprinkled or painted their dead with red ochre and placed blades copper bone and shell beads as well as pottery pipes fire-making kits and baskets within the mortuary mounds.
When John Howard bequeathed the park to the city in the 1800s he also provided the condition that the Six Nations would continue their custodian role over their sacred sites.