To call Brant's home a "mansion," is racist: wealthy settlers' homes were just as large, but by implication, settlers were entitled to large homes. "Indians" were not.

NEWS BRANTFORD – Rumours have haunted Oxbow Road for decades... A prominent thread running through the narrative of the Grand River Saga centres on a documented story of land theft. In the notoriously turbulent mid-nineteenth century, this particular land theft might have gone unnoticed except for one woman's determination. That woman was the mother of Squire Tehawennihárhos. Her name was Margaret Riley (O'Reilly) Davis. For simplicity, Margaret. At the time of Margaret's hus

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION IN CANADA? NO WAY. (PR is especially bad for liberal democracies)

Answer: "You" are a thing. Experts weigh in on AI. "'OpenAI is really excited about building AGI (artificial general intelligence) and they are recklessly racing to be the first there,' said Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI's governance division and one of the [protesting] group's organizers. . . . [Kokotajlo] also believes that the possibility AI will destroy or catastrophically harm humanity – a grim statistic often shortened to 'p(doom)' in AI circles, is 70

Photos below show the actual river and mansion referenced in the Grand River Saga novels. Continue scrolling to see the images of John Smoke Johnson and Barton Farr, antagonists. 1. Ruthven Hall on the Grand River Ontario. Like the canal system, David Thompson 1's Ruthven Hall was constructed with Six Nation's money, which just happened to turn up in Thompson's bank account. (See, Bruce E Hill, The Grand River Navigation Company.) 2. Marker of Tehawennihárhos Squire Davis and

The much maligned human ability to stereotype helps us understand power structures. Our observing who–stereotypes–whom, plus our making a special note of who fits in with the group, and who doesn't, is a double-edged gift. Stereotyping, a superficial assessment of the other via the manners of the group they belong to, acts as an aid to human memory and intelligence. To secure our survival and our culture club's survival, we must know who belongs to our herd (has our manners),

Published 13 May 2023. Republished 30 Dec 2023 " But Britannia still rules the flag waves. The personal standards of Britain's royal...

The Grand River is situated in southwestern Ontario. From its source near Wareham it flows southeast through the Grand valley–Fergus, Elora, Waterloo, Kitchener, Galt/Cambridge, Paris, Brantford, Ohsweken, Caledonia, and Cayuga–before emptying into the north shore of Lake Erie south of Dunnville at Port Maitland. In 1784 the Grand River/Tinaatoua and lands adjacent to the river for six miles on either side, including timber and minerals, were the property and within the sover

"The Grand River project was unique in one particular way. It was the only major project in Canadian history financed by Indian funds. . . . Their total investment subscribed without their knowledge or consent, amounted to over £40 000. Over a hundred years of protest by the Six Nations Indians and the periodical efforts of lawyers have not reimbursed them.” B. E. Hill Bruce Hill brings to light a serious 19th-century financial and land-jobbing scandal. Unvested writers, his

From the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – final note on the return of the wampum belts Pauline Johnson...

Squire Davis had several run-ins with the authorities. Was he a forerunner of #IdleNoMore, or a scofflaw, or both? Squire’s claim to property in the Township of Onondaga in the Six Nations territory was contentious. Squire stood accused of getting a man inebriated, encouraging said fellow to sign a quit claim, re: RR45, and, if all this wasn’t sketchy enough, a certain Hilton Hill (H. H.) suggests Squire turned the poor befuddled fellow, namely Joseph Miller, over to the Unio

In 1791 a few years after the end of the American rebellion – and to handle the ensuing flood of American-speaking displaced persons arriving in the upper country – Great Britain took it upon itself to divide Quebec into two provinces: Lower and Upper Canada. Lower Canada is currently Québec. Upper Canada is currently Ontario. In the eighteenth century, Upper Canada, which the British claimed but did not own and did not conquer, was the territories-depending-thereon part of Q