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ROBINSON HURON WA AWIINDAMA AGEWIN GIS PROGR AM UPDATE By RHW GIS Team
In our first edition of The Robinson Huron Treaty Times, we introduced you to Geographic Information System (GIS): what it is and how we are using it. We also featured our developing projects, highlighting the GIS Portal, which if you have not had a chance to check out, you can find it on our website at www.waawiindamaagewin.com. Try it out following the steps of our Quick Guide listed on page 41 or reach out to our team if you would like to schedule personal or community training, and allow us to demonstrate using the application. Let us know what you feel is missing or provide feedback of your experience—we are continuously working to add to the list of available data sets. Ndoo-Dbaajmowninaan (Our Story)— Anishinaabe within the Huron 1850 Treaty We are using our GIS Portal to map our ways, tell our stories, and share our knowledge of our connections and relations to the land and water with our treaty partners and all our relations: our systems, our governance and council fires. We also are working on Virtual Tours that can be taken using the GIS Portal. Baawating—the place where the Robinson Huron Treaty was signed—is the first community featured on our Virtual Tour in the GIS Portal. Ogimaa Sayers shares a journey with us along the St. Mary’s River, through Baawaating, also known as Sault Ste. Marie. 38
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We are excited to share with you ‘Our Story’, from the Anishinaabe lens, of the time and place as it was before and at the onset of colonization. Our governance, our relations and our obligations to the land, as we inherited rights to live in peace in harmony with all our relations. Ndoo-Dbaajmowninaan is now accessible on our website or by following the link below. Please take time to listen to the voice of Ogimaa Sayers as he shares key origins of our journey and our connections. This is a small piece of the stories to share and the ones we know exist and wish to include. If you would like to contribute and add your voice, or if you wish to recommend others to continue the process for the entire RHW community, please reach out. We have more to come as we continue to visit our relatives along the way. Stay tuned!
Access our survey on the website under ANOKAAJIGAN, then NDOODBAAJMOWNINAAN, or by visiting https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ f65e1c8ea7964f4190032e4833945efc\
