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The Symbolic and Reciprocal Relationship Between a Native approach to my topic was to rely almost The Symbolic and exclusively on interviews to establish and Reciprocal Relationship dissect the nuanced differences in the Mohawk approach to human-land relations. between a Native American This directed my ethnography into the subfields of environmental anthropology Community and their Land and political anthropology. By Abigail Reid I began my study with a series of questions, which made evident my initial desire to learn as much as possible about the Mohawks of The moment I enrolled in this module the Bay of Quinte and their relationship and became aware of the Ethnographic with their land. With this, however, it made Encounters project, I was certain of my evident my reliance on the lens of political focus. I grew up in a region of Southern anthropology. Ontario, Canada, that has a 500-year history of settlements and resettlements ● How and why has the Mohawk between the First Nation of Mississaugas, understanding of, and approach to, land the United Empire Loyalists and the current ownership changed since the time of their First Nation of the Mohawks of the Bay of original settlement on the Bay of Quinte? Quinte. While I live only moments away from the geographical division establishing ● Does the tribe’s settlement through the the territory of the Reservation, I knew purchase of its Bay of Quinte territory very little beyond the basic history contradict Native understandings of land outlined above. It was something that ownership? had surrounded me my entire life, yet simultaneously something I had never ● How have territorial losses and gains, as attempted to analyse, nor truly understand. well as unsettled land disputes, affected the With this, I was motivated to learn about tribe’s approach to their relationship with the social, cultural and political relations their land? that defined the relationship between the Mohawks and their land. ● Would disputes regarding the ownership of native territory originate from the idea Initially, I believed that it would be that the Mohawk, or generally Iroquois exceptionally difficult to approach my people are better stewards of the land; that ethnography in the most traditional sense losing the land means losing or risking of Malinowskian participant observation. much of their culture and history; or other How could I observe a relationship between reasons? a group of people and the land they inhabit? The reservation and the peoples who All of these questions, and several others inhabit it, had mixed and merged with other that I had also used to converse with surrounding communities to the extent that members of the Mohawk reservation, much of their everyday life, including their possessed an evident flaw: each provided public interaction with land, was reflective little opportunity to acquire information of that of their non-Native neighbours. beyond historical facts and common What was I to observe that was truly unique knowledge. While these questions to this community and their land? This were valuable for providing a historical led me to wrongly believe that the best foundation for my project, I did not believe 25 ABIGAIL REID ETHNOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS this type of research was sufficient for a true and political foundation. ethnography. As previously noted, the territory that is Early on in my fieldwork, I was able to now defined as that of the Mohawk people attend an Aboriginal Awareness course at has undergone resettlements at various a local college. This experience provided critical points in Canadian history. Before the opportunity to purely listen to a panel French and British colonialism in the 17th- of Mohawk community Elders and Paul and 18th-century respectively, the region Latchford, the college coordinator of of Tyendinaga, as well as the majority of its Aboriginal Services, who quickly became my surrounding region, was inhabited by the gatekeeper into this community. Through Mississaugas. Following the Seven Years’ their speaking, their conversations with War when the British officially took control other individuals in attendance, and in their of Upper Canada (present-day Southern responses to my own questions, a strong Ontario), displacement began to occur. This common narrative emerged. This narrative culminated with the end of the American emphasised the notion that the primary Revolution when the British granted various relationship found in this research is not regions of Upper Canada to the United strictly a relationship between a people Empire Loyalists and the Mohawks, both and their land, but instead a relationship of whom were forced to cede their land in between a people and the symbolic what became the United States of America. representations manifested by their land. These Loyalists continue to inhabit the Representations which demonstrate the surrounding regions of Deseronto, Belleville history, traditions, values and overall and Loyalist Township. The territory of culture of the Mohawks of the Bay of Tyendinaga, however, was selected by Quinte, a culture which emphasizes the Mohawk leaders Joseph Brant and John significance of reciprocity. In reviewing all Deseronto due to its significance in the research and interviews, this notion became original Five Nations history. The region the foundation of both my Ethnographic had once been controlled by the Iroquois Encounter and my personal understanding Confederacy and the Bay of Quinte, upon of Mohawk culture. which the Reservation borders, is known as the birthplace of Tekanawita, “the Part One: Establishing Legal Status Peacemaker that brought the original Five and Changing the Focus Nations Iroquois Confederacy under a constitution of peace in the 12th century” While my approach to collecting data (Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte n.d.). While did change considerably throughout my this historical summary does not add project, this does not discredit the value substance to any ethnography, it retains of my early research. My initial approach its importance as it is these facts that both prioritised the social, cultural and political determined the Mohawk tribe’s current differences of the Mohawk tribe, in relation location and established the foundation of to surrounding non-Natives, with primary legal, political and social relations with non- reference to their desire to maintain their Native Canadians. geographical territory. Paul Latchford, using his access to historical literature Paul Latchford took these historical facts and pre-existing treaties, as well as his and was then able to relay information about knowledge of the legal rights afforded to the implications of these events as it relates Aboriginal Canadians, was able to provide to individuals of today’s Mohawk Territory. information necessary for this social, legal When asked about the relationship ETHNOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS ABIGAIL REID 26 between legal ownership and Iroquois clearly defined, temporally and spatially: understandings that “in no event is land there is a way into liminality and there is for sale” (McNellis 2010: 21), a relationship a way out of it” (Thomassen 2009: 21). I believed to be rife with conflict, Paul Comparatively, the liminality of an entire clarified the issue. He explained that the society, which applies directly to the concept of land ownership does not extend Tyendinaga Mohawk community since to Native Peoples, as they are “wards of the the time of their resettlement, is unique country” and therefore “we do not have in that “the future is inherently unknown” title to our lands.” The deed that is often (Thomassen 2009: 22). Neither I, nor discussed, which transferred the territory any individual connected to the Mohawk of Tyendinaga to the Mohawk people, is not community, could determine the exact really a deed for land ownership, but instead outcome of this liminality. Instead, I began a “Certificate of Possession of our land.” to prioritise research into the individual and social effects of such a liminality, as they While the difference between the two may have manifested in the Mohawk storytelling appear to outsiders as largely based in and ceremonial action. semantics, the difference for the Mohawk people, and other Native communities Part Two: Recognizing the Physical throughout Canada, has a tremendous and Spiritual impact on both individual opportunity and perception of land. The Government On the morning of the 11th of March, 2017 I of Canada, with reference to the 1876 walked out the front door of my home to find Indian Act, further summarises this legal that it was -18°C. The roads were covered in dynamic, explaining that as individual ice and the salt and sand trucks had yet to allotments and Certificates of Possession make their rounds, meaning I arrived late to may be granted by a Band Council and my first session of the Aboriginal Awareness the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and at the local college. I was embarrassed, Northern Development, “the legal title entering the room, rearranging chairs, to the land remains with the Crown” rustling layers of outerwear and preparing (Government of Canada 2013). In essence, my notebook and pen. My attempted the land that is respected by the majority silence could not match the attentiveness of Canadians as being Native territory of the classroom, which was arranged in a is ultimately controlled by the Canadian semi-circle, each attendee watching with Government. Paul Latchford explained the keen interest the ritual of smudging that most identifiable impact of such a legal was taking place. A young Mohawk man arrangement, stating that without rights for with his eyes closed stood before a female outright land ownership, “people on reserve Elder who recited a Mohawk prayer and cannot go to the bank as they have no title allowed the smoke from the burning herbs to their lands,” meaning that opportunities to envelop his face. The Elder, Katsitsiase or for home-based loans are extremely limited. Betty Maracle, then joined another Elder, Anataras or Alan Brant and began the This made me consider Tyendinaga weekly class.
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