Our Long Struggle for Home : The Ipperwash Story 2010 The Diamond Willow Walking Stick

The Diamond Willow Walking Stick received the First Peoples' Publishing Award 2013

At home on the reserve

A beloved story of magic

L’autrice renommée Monique Gray Smith a écrit de nombreux ouvrages sur la résilience et la réconciliation

Our Long Struggle for Home : The Ipperwash Story 2010 The Diamond Willow Walking StickIn this disquieting story of broken promises and thwarted justice, the Anishinaabe of Stoney Point tell of the long struggle to reclaim their ancestral homeland, both before and after the Ipperwash crisis. In 1995, police shot and killed Dudley George on the site of the former Stoney Point Reserve, near Ipperwash provincial park. But this was just the climax of a long story, told here, for the first time, by Georges sister, cousins, and others from