Research Guides: The Indigenous History of Tkaronto: Further History

Toronto

This section includes a few academic titles specifically relating to the Indigenous history of Toronto.

The meeting place : aboriginal life in Toronto.
The Toronto Carrying Place : rediscovering Toronto's most ancient trail
In this book author Glenn Turner documents his three day walk from Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe revealing the history of the landscape along the way.
Disappearing into White Space: Indigenous Toronto, 1900-1914
Jasmine Chorley examines the lives of the Indigenous population of Toronto using census data and historical newspaper articles.
"Toronto Has No History!" Indigeneity Settler Colonialism and Historical Memory in Canada's Largest City
PhD Thesis, Victoria Freeman.
"Toronto Has No History!" Indigeneity Settler Colonialism and Historical Memory in Canada's Largest City
Article in Urban History Review
MURPHY, M. (2020). 2. SOME KEYWORDS TOWARD DECOLONIAL METHODS: STUDYING SETTLER COLONIAL HISTORIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLENCE FROM TKARONTO. History and Theory, 59(3), 376–384
Keywords and reflections for embracing decolonial historical pracctices
Johnson, Leo A. "The Mississauga--Lake Ontario Land Surrender of 1805." Ontario History 82, no. 3 (09, 1990): 233-253.
In print at Robarts Library, call number F5500 .O58. Other locations are also available.
Indian Claims Commission. Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation Inquiry. Toronto Purchase Claim. June 2003.
This submission to the former Indian Claims Commission includes a well researched history of the history of the Toronto area and the treaty process.
"Wegnesh e'aa waad Mississaugas? / Who are the Mississaugas?" 2012
Video of Cultural and Historical Gathering 2012.
"Wegnesh e'aa waad Mississaugas? / Who are the Mississaugas?" 2011
Video of Cultural and Historical Gathering 2011.
"Kaa bi zhidigoshnaang maanpii akiing omaa : Our People: The Mississauga Nation"
Video of Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation Cultural and Historical Gathering 2010.
Smith, Donald B. "The Dispossession of the Mississauga Indians: a Missing Chapter in the Early History of Upper Canada Source." Ontario History 73 no. 2 (1981) : 67-87.
In print at Robarts Library, call number F5500 .O58. Other locations are also available.
Smith, Donald B. Sacred Feathers: the Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians. 2nd Ed. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.
This title also serves as a good history of the Mississauga people in the Toronto region up until Peter Jones's lifetime.

Creation Stories

This section includes a sample of creation stories from the nations whose traditional territory is in the Toronto and Eastern Great Lakes region.

And Grandma Said... Iroquois Teachings by Tom Porter
ISBN: 9781436335652
Publication Date: 2008-07-01
Told by Mohawk Bear Clan Elder, Sakokweniónkwas (Tom Porter).
The Mishomis Book by Edward Benton-Banai
ISBN: 9780816673827
Publication Date: 2010-01-22
Written by Ojibway educator and spiritual leader Edward Benton-Banai, and first published in 1988, The Mishomis Book draws from the traditional teachings of tribal elders to instruct young readers about Ojibway creation stories, the origin and importance of the Ojibway family structure and clan system, the Midewiwin religion, the construction and use of the water drum and sweat lodge, and modern Ojibway history.
Ojibway ceremonies by Basil Johnston ; illustrations by David Beyer.
ISBN: 0771044453
The Oneida Creation Story by Harvey Antone; Demus Elm; Floyd G. Lounsbury (Translator); Bryan Gick (Translator)
ISBN: 0803267428
Publication Date: 2000-06-01
In Oneida and English.

VIDEO: Creation Story - Conversations in Cultural Fluency Lecture Series
Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre at Six Nations Polytechnic is pleased to share the following lecture series, “Conversations in Cultural Fluency”. This lecture series is intended to expose learners to theoretical and practical applications of Haudenosaunee-Indigenous Knowledge through a variety of topics including the Haudenosaunee Creation Story; Ecological Knowledge of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum; Three Sisters Sustainability; Good Mindedness within the Great Law of Peace; and Navigating with the Two Row Wampum.