{"id":707,"date":"2025-11-03T20:09:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/?page_id=707"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:44:04","slug":"day-of-truth-and-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/?page_id=707","title":{"rendered":"Day of Truth and Reconciliation 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1860, a courageous Ojibwe (Mississauga) woman, Nahneebahweequay, or \u201cNahnee\u201d, Catharine Sutton in English, crossed the Atlantic, to present important land claims in person to Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace. Although the Queen promised to help, the Duke of Newcastle, in charge of Indian affairs, did not follow through. As Nahnee says:<em> &nbsp;\u201c \u2026.we were sure, that if we could only have an investigation, the dark deeds of the department would be brought to light; and so we have been doomed to disappointment of a most vexatious kind.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Catherine-Sutton-Nahneebahweequay-portrait-cleaned-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"927\" height=\"1081\" data-id=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Catherine-Sutton-Nahneebahweequay-portrait-cleaned-up.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Catherine-Sutton-Nahneebahweequay-portrait-cleaned-up.jpg 927w, https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Catherine-Sutton-Nahneebahweequay-portrait-cleaned-up-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Catherine-Sutton-Nahneebahweequay-portrait-cleaned-up-878x1024.jpg 878w, https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Catherine-Sutton-Nahneebahweequay-portrait-cleaned-up-768x896.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Miniature watercolor portrait<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Robbing-Peter-to-Pay-Paul-Xty-yellow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"336\" height=\"341\" data-id=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Robbing-Peter-to-Pay-Paul-Xty-yellow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Robbing-Peter-to-Pay-Paul-Xty-yellow.jpg 336w, https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Robbing-Peter-to-Pay-Paul-Xty-yellow-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Robbing Peter to Pay Paul<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I honour Nahnee with a collage patchwork called Robbing Peter to Pay Paul, which uses nineteenth century maps showing the encroachment of white settlement on Indigenous lands around Lake Huron, Owen Sound and the Bruce Peninsula, framed by images of corn. <a href=\"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/?page_id=348\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"348\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-custom-color-2-color\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1860, a courageous Ojibwe (Mississauga) woman, Nahneebahweequay, or \u201cNahnee\u201d, Catharine Sutton in English, crossed the Atlantic, to present important land claims in person to Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace. Although the Queen promised to help, the Duke of Newcastle, in charge of Indian affairs, did not follow through. As Nahnee says: &nbsp;\u201c \u2026.we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}