PODCAST: History of the Ottawa River Watershed – Peter Di Gangi, Algonquin Nation Secretariat

78 minute audio recording of talk by Research and Policy Director of the Algonquin Nation Secretariat, Peter Di Gangi, presented December 8th 2015 at Octopus Books in Ottawa, unceded Algonquin territory – also available is a 74 minute version for use in burning to standard CD format.

Audio player embedded below.

Outline of talk:

• The Ottawa River
• Algonquins and Nipissings – pre-contact
• French-English competition, fur trade, war and peace
• Logging and settlement in the Ottawa valley
• Impacts
• Petitions for reserve lands
• Dams and hydro
• Sports hunting, trapping
• Policy and law in the 20th century
• Current events

 
Listen to the talk:

Click for mp3 files:

• 78 minute version (full, with intro)
• 73m55s version (without intro, and sped up 4%, for burning onto a standard 74-min CD)

 

Algonquin Nation Secretariat: www.algonquinnation.ca

 

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On the Algonquin land claim for eastern Ontario:

• Reconciliation as Real Negotiations or Termination Table? The Algonquin Land Claim in Eastern Ontario (November 2015)

• Interview with Algonquin Nation Secretariat advisor Russell Diabo (February 2015) mp3 file link
  (with correction: 6,000 non-status enrolled members, not 16,000)
  
  

 

On the sacred Chaudiere Falls area (Akikodjiwan / Asinabka) and Windmill Development Group’s “Zibi” condo plans:

• Videos & podcast from event, Protecting the Sacred Chaudière Falls Site – Asinabka / Akikodjiwan – from Windmill’s “Zibi” condo development (December 2015)

• If Algonquin chiefs oppose “Zibi” condos and the media’s not there, does it make a sound? (December 2015)

• Nine Algonquin chiefs, AFNQL oppose ‘Zibi’ condos and resolve to protect sacred area in Ottawa/Gatineau (November 2015)

• Collection of Algonquin voices opposed to ‘Zibi’ condo development on sacred site in Ottawa (November 2015)

• Handout, article, audio and videos to stop private development of sacred Chaudière site (January 2015)
 
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UPDATE 2018:
For further discussion around this topic (and specifically with respect to a claim that Ottawa is Mohawk Territory), see Peter Di Gangi in conversation with Albert Dumont and Monique Monatch on their monthly Rogers TV show, IndigenUs