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29-496: The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre developed out of the Shingwauk Project initiative. The Shingwauk Project was started in 1979 by Algoma University professor Don Jackson and numerous local partners including: Lloyd Bannerman of Algoma University College, Ron Boissoneau of Garden River First Nation , Dan Pine Sr. a residential school survivor and member of Garden River First Nation, and many other former students of

58-629: A band council consisting of a chief and 8 councillors. Council elections are held biannually. The current chief is Karen Bell. Garden River First Nation was created as a legal entity when Lord Elgin , Governor General of the Province of Canada , approved in law the Robinson Huron Treaty on November 29, 1850. The treaty had been negotiated between the British colony's representative William B. Robinson and numerous Ojibwa chiefs from

87-636: A partnership called Shifting Indigenous Frontline Tactics (SHIFT) with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service to facilitate ongoing cultural training for police staff. In 2019, the SHIFT program was nominated for the Sault Innovation Award, Innovative Project of the Year. The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre logo evolved out of the Shingwauk Project logo. The image of the crane was selected for

116-504: A stop along its Sault Ste. Marie–Sudbury–North Bay–Ottawa route, with one bus a day each headed eastbound and westbound from Sunday to Friday, with no service on Saturdays. Krista McCracken Krista McCracken is a Canadian public historian, educator, curator and archivist known for their work raising awareness about the history of the Canadian Indian residential school system . McCracken holds an MA in public history from

145-661: Is located along the St. Marys River and Highway 17 . The Garden River runs through the reserve as a tributary of the St. Marys River. It is bordered by the Unorganized North Algoma District , Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional , the city of Sault Ste. Marie , the Rankin Location Indian reserve, and Sugar Island Township, Michigan , USA. Garden River First Nation is governed by

174-727: The Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association and Shingwauk Reunion fonds held at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre were added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Cross-cultural programming provided by the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre includes outreach and education activities for elementary, high school, and professional development groups. In 2018 the Centre launched

203-553: The Shingwauk Indian Residential School in developing survivor-driven art exhibits like Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall which opened in 2018. A book about archival practice and the work being done by the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association and staff at Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre co-authored by McCracken and former Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre student employee Skylee-Storm Hogan

232-464: The Shingwauk Indian Residential School to return to the Shingwauk site and discuss their experiences. Many of the attendees brought with them documents and photographs that they wished to share with others. The result was the establishment of an informal archive. This grassroots archival effort evolved into the formal archival holdings of the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre. From 2010-2012

261-535: The University of Western Ontario . They work Researcher/Curator at Arthur A. Wishart Library and Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre , an archival repository and cross-cultural education centre within Algoma University where they have worked since 2010. McCracken's research focuses on community archives, residential schools, research and access. In their role they have supported former attendees of

290-688: The Centre partnered with the Archives of Ontario to contribute to the "Family Ties: Ontario Turns 150" exhibit which featured content relating to the Shingwauk family and Shingwauk Residential School. The Family Ties exhibition went on to win the 2017 Award of Excellence in Exhibitions offered by the Ontario Museum Association. In August 2018 the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, including researcher and curator Krista McCracken , worked in partnership with Algoma University and

319-620: The Centre. In 2013 the work of the Centre was recognized by the Archives Association of Ontario when the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre and Algoma University's Arthur A. Wishart Library received the Archives Association of Ontario Institutional Award. In 2013 the archives was also the recipient of the Project of the Year award from the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre's SMMARt Innovation Awards. In 2016

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348-641: The Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association, opened the Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall exhibition space. This space is an exhibit which tell this history of the Shingwauk Residential School site, within the context of colonialism in Canada, while also celebrating the resilience of residential school survivors. The Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall space won the 2018 Ontario Historical Society Indigenous History award. In 2019

377-482: The Lake Huron watershed earlier that year, and had been signed by these representatives on Sept. 9, 1850. The treaty extinguished Ojibwa title to the land in exchange for 17 reserve lands and annual annuities. Each reserve had to register its band members because an increase to annuity amounts would be determined on a per-person basis. Garden River First Nation was represented in the treaty by Shingwaukonse , who

406-672: The Origin of the St. Mary's River". Kohl also expressed praise of a beautiful birch bark biting art work he had seen while at Rivière au Désert In 1964, the Garden River First Nation hosted a week-long assembly of the National Indian Council , in which Indigenous representatives from across Canada met in the community's meeting hall, Sahkahjewadsa meaning House of the Rising Sun. Highway 17 ,

435-745: The Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall space was shortlisted for the Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Community Programming. In the same year, the Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall project won the Sault Innovation Award, Innovative Project of the Year award. The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre was also awarded the Municipal Heritage Award by the City of Sault Ste. Marie . In March 2020,

464-890: The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre archival holdings underwent significant changes and began the process of professionalization. This process included the hiring of dedicated archival staff, creating digital records, and applying the Canadian Rules for Archival Description to the archival holdings. The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre contains archival material relating to the history of residential schools across Canada, Indigenous organizations, Indigenous artists, and organizations engaged in healing and reconciliation work. The archives include residential school administrative records, photographs, school newsletters, church publications, staff correspondence, artifacts and artwork created by students during and following their time in residential schools, and other material. In September 2020

493-656: The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre was presented with the Leading Cultural Destination, Soft Power Best Cultural Organisation award. Garden River First Nation Garden River First Nation , also known as Ketegaunseebee ( Gitigaan-ziibi Anishinaabe in the Ojibwe language ), is an Ojibwa band located at Garden River 14 near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario , Canada. The Garden River reserve consists of two non-contiguous areas, totalling 20,703.5 hectares (51,159 acres). The larger, main area

522-492: The Shingwauk and Wawanosh Indian Residential Schools. The Shingwauk Project was established as a cross-cultural educational and cross-cultural research project which aims to acknowledge the legacy of residential schools and bring to the forefront the history of the Shingwauk Indian Residential School . Since 1979 the Shingwauk Project has under taken numerous projects in the spirit of 'healing, sharing, and learning.' These projects have included hosting residential school reunions,

551-473: The band's reserve, while 1,130 members live off the reserve, predominantly but not exclusively in Sault Ste. Marie. According to Statistics Canada, the 2001 census showed the following: more than 45 per cent of the on-reserve population were under 25 years old; more than 93 per cent spoke only English at home; and more than 56 per cent identified as Catholic and 28 per cent as Protestant. Ontario Northland provides intercity motor coach service to Garden River as

580-430: The creation of historical pamphlets, educational displays, offering guided tours of the Shingwauk site, and the establishment of an archive, library and heritage collections that would become the foundation for the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre. The collection of archival material under the auspices of the Shingwauk Project began in 1981 at the first Shingwauk reunion. This event invited former students and staff of

609-419: The original logo because of Chief Shingwauk 's connection the crane. He was a member of the crane clan and his dodem was a crane. The Shingwauk Project logo was modeled after the 'Rising Crane' painting commissioned by the Project. In 2011 Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre staff member Michelle McMillan designed a modern take on the classic crane logo. The logo created by McMillan is still currently in use by

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638-527: The primary route of the Trans-Canada Highway , was realigned when a four-lane bypass opened north of the existing roadway on October 31, 2007. The reserve objected to the renaming of the old road as Highway 638 , and erected its own signs identifying the road, unofficially, as Highway 17B . The municipal councils of Sault Ste. Marie and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional , which border Garden River on either side and are also located on

667-530: The provincial government did not assist the council with a funding shortfall of approximately $ 1 million. They threatened to impose the toll to protest the HST and native people having to pay the tax, not because they wanted a million dollars. Garden River First Nation has a population of 2,134 members registered under the Indian Act , according to the latest statistics (June, 2006). 1,004 members are resident on

696-514: The returned land to Canada to administer for the use of the band. In a letter written in October 1855, Johann Georg Kohl cites visiting Rivière au Désert ("Garden River" (literally "Desert River") in French ), located a few miles from the mouth of the St. Marys River . He recounted a Menaboju story of an encounter with the "Beaver King", in the recounting of "The Legend of Beaverhead Rock and

725-509: The route of the disputed roadway, both passed municipal resolutions in 2007 supporting Garden River's position. The provincial government of Ontario eventually acceded to the Garden River band's demand, officially designating the route as Highway 17B in early 2009. In February 2010, Garden River's band council publicly warned that they would consider imposing tolls on the routes of both Highway 17 and Highway 17B through their territory if

754-557: The treaty, Garden River First Nation disputed the survey of their reserve conducted by the Province of Canada . In April 2003, the government of Canada returned 3,492 hectares of land to the reserve from the adjacent geographic townships of Anderson and Chesley. This resolution was negotiated between the band, the government of Canada, and the province of Ontario in accord with the Indian Lands Agreement of 1986 . Ontario also released all mineral rights and revenues on

783-669: Was announced in January 2021 and published in August 2023. In July 2023, McCracken's co-edited publication Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries with Kalani Adolpho and Stephen G. Kruger was published Library Juice Press . Beyond their work at Algoma University, Krista is an editor of ActiveHistory.ca and has served on the board of directors of the National Council on Public History . They also served as president of

812-483: Was generally recognized as an Ojibwe grand chief by other bands in both the Lake Huron and Lake Superior watersheds. Shingwaukonse and his band had been living at their traditional garden lands at the mouth of the Garden River since 1841, after leaving a settlement near Sault Ste. Marie . The treaty formally recognized the band's reserve lands in this vicinity as reservation 14. Upon his death in 1854, Shingwaukonse

841-469: Was succeeded as chief by his son Augustine Shingwauk. The last hereditary chief was Shingwaukonse's second son Buhgwujjenene, who succeeded his brother Augustine. In the treaty's schedule of reservations, the fourteenth reservation is "a tract of land extending from Maskinongé Bay, inclusive, to Partridge Point, above Garden River on the front, and inland ten miles, throughout the whole distance; and also Squirrel Island." For many years subsequent to signing

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