Chris Waite's Anishnaabe History Podcast

Chris Waite's Anishnaabe History Podcast

History about Ojibwe and Cree people.

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April 18, 2025 34 mins

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Audio version of an essay I wrote for a Creative Non-Fiction class. 

**Trigger Warning**

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Sorry I've been procrastinating!! Thank you for listening! Miigwetch!!

Lawnmower Man > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Py4Q9aeTrE
Iron Confederacy > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lzOyATlPxQ
Peabody & Sherman > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brzxy6YiDRI
Pickton Murder News > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvw9g9w1LSs
Treaty 1850 Ruling News > https://www.youtube.co...

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March 31, 2024 15 mins

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Land "purchases" made around the Credit River region. 

References:

  1. https://www.mississauga.ca/our-organization/about-our-organization/why-were-called-mississauga/
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississaugas
  3. Archeologists have discovered a mystery at the bottom of Lake Huron
  4. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/seven-oaks-incident
  5. https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/upper-canada-...
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December 31, 2023 30 mins

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His name is synonymous  with "hard work" and "ingenuity." But what did it take for him to be successful in Illinois?

References:

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820s
  2. https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1836
  3. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/convention-of-1818
  4. https://www.deere.com/en/our-company/history/
  5. https://www.britannica.com/event/Black-Hawk-War/Indian-removal-and-growing-tensi...
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November 30, 2023 18 mins

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References


  1. McNeilly, G. (2018). Broken Trust: Indigenous People and the Thunder Bay Police Service. Systemic Review. Retrieved from https://oiprd.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/OIPRD-BrokenTrust-Final-Accessible-E.pdf
  2. Porter, J. (2015). Deep Water. Audio Documentary. Retrieved from https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2686264208
  3. Talaga, T. (2017). Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City. Hous...
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Why do we discuss treaties so much? It's because knowing the treaties helps us  to understand what was happening at the time and how it relates to modern boundaries and politics.

References

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1814_treaties
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Greenville_(1814)
  3. http://treatiesmatter.org/treaties/land/1825-1830-Multinational
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Simcoe...
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September 29, 2023 7 mins

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Why do we have "Truth and Reconciliation Day"?


Sol Mamakwa -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIIzjOkQdk&t=310s
Local News Radio -> https://www.rock94.com

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May 31, 2023 11 mins

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After the War of 1812 and before the Trail of Tears. What happened?

References

  1. Skeen, C Edward. (2003). 1816: America Rising. University Press of Kentucky.
  2. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-canadian-border-established
  3. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/convention-of-1818
  4. https://www.american-historama.org/1801-1828-evolution/1818-convention-49th-parallel.htm
  5. https://thecanadianency...
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April 20, 2023 4 mins

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Seneca legend from the book "Star Songs and Water Spirits: a Great Lakes Reader," edited by Victoria Brehm (2011, p120, Ladyslipper Press, Michigan). The legend was documented in 1923 and told by Gawasowaneh (Big Snowflake, Arthur C. Parker, b1881-d1955).

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April 7, 2023 2 mins

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From "Sacred Legends of the Sandy Lake Cree," by James Stevens, 1971, (McLelland and Stewart Ltd, Toronto, p.82).

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Excerpt from "Sacred Legends of the Sandy Lake Cree," by James Stevens, 1971, p.83. (McClelland and Stewart, Ltd.)

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March 21, 2023 5 mins

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Dene Legend

From "American Indian Myths and Legends," by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz (Pantheon Books, 1984).

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February 28, 2023 26 mins

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An overview of what Medicine Wheels are and how they can be used.

References


  1. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/medicine-wheels
  2. Bell, N. (2014). Education Canada. “Teaching the Medicine Wheel.” Retrieved from https://www.edcan.ca/articles/teaching-by-the-medicine-wheel/
  3. Bender, Herman. (2008). Medicine Wheels or "Calendar Sites": Indian Time or the Space/Time Continuum. Time and...
January 28, 2023 34 mins

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Can understanding glaciers & genetics of Turtle Island help us understand early human inhabitation patterns?

References

  1. Clague & Ward. (2011). Growth and Decay of Cordilleran Ice Sheet. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/cordilleran-ice-sheet
  2. Unit 2 -  Human Migration and the First Settlers to North America
  3. Cordilleran Ice Sheet in Northwest Was...
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December 27, 2022 15 mins

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References


  1. https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5248/
  2. https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/browse-historical-sites/serpent-mound/
  3. https://www.worldhistory.org/Alexander_the_Great/
  4. https://www.worldhistory.org/First_Crusade/
  5. https://www.worldhistory.org/Second_Crusade/
  6. Lepper, B., Duncan, J., Diaz-Granádos, C., & Frolking, T. (2018). Arguments for the Age of Serpent Mound. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 28(3...
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