His research into these “images of forgotten dreams,” as he called them, required countless canoe trips through the furthest reaches of the Canadian Shield. And then, lying in bed with the lights off, I was shaken by heavy breathing sounds outside my door. Its eternal head is cocked to the side in curiosity, as though trying to make out whatever it is that anyone gazing upon it is also trying to fathom.

From 1957 until 1975, Dewdney systematically recorded hundreds of Canadian pictograph and petroglyph sites (the latter being carved or engraved or pecked rock, as opposed to the former, which are painted rock), meticulously sketching, tracing, and photographing the artworks. Just by being out there, all our negative energy is absorbed. Nobody knows for sure. “But the First Nations belief is that life is about helping one another, as a people. Mitch was elected and President of the Métis Nation of Ontario Youth Council in 2012 and re-elected in 2016.

Elie sprinkles some of the tobacco I brought him into the flames. A convenient place to stay in Sault Ste. “Put some tobacco into the water with your left hand,” he advises, “while asking permission from the spirits who watch over the area to view the pictographs.” It’s as much a matter of respect as it is of safety, Elie adds. Mitch is the Director of Student Services at Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig, an Anishinaabe post secondary institute in Sault Ste Marie. Stories will be drawn from oral historical accounts, which have been shared with Mitch over the years as well as from the written historical records pertaining to the communities in the Upper Great Lakes. Meet Mishipeshu: the Great Lynx, the Underwater Wildcat, the Fabulous Night Panther. Who painted those?’ We were told to go talk to him. I am barefoot on a narrow ledge of rock, working on a vision. It is important to note, however, that he did not “discover” these sites. They will tell how that song was given by Elder Francis Cree to Tony Belcourt in a sacred ceremony at the Turtle Mountains so that he could bring that song to the drum in the Nation-to-Nation Unity ceremony held at Kettle and Stoney point First Nation. A white stag led the Magyar founding fathers to what is now called Hungary—and it was a megis shell that guided the Anishnaabeg westward from their former home near the Atlantic Ocean, on “the shores of the Great Salt Water in the East.” They’d been living next to the sea when, according to Ojibway scholar and writer Basil Johnson, “One day a small sea shell emerged from the waves of the great sea and hovered over the land of the Anishnabeg where it remained for a long time. “Those paintings are helpers that support the fasters,” he continues. We’re supposed to live that each and every day. He is Co-Chair of the Aboriginal Education Council at OCAD University.Tony received the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Public Service in 2006; received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Lakehead University in 2010 and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, 2013. For a moment I can see both of us there, as though from a great distance. Additionally, Mitch is a member of the Provisional Council of the Métis Nation of Ontario. Strange cries pierced through the night. The colour of sunlight through closed eyelids. Our rational minds can justify most things, but the fact is: we respond to the unknown in irrational ways. Along with your spirit name, there’s self-esteem, that you are somebody. The first time I came here to see the rock art as a kid was probably around 1970.

Travelling here means leaving urban reality behind and entering a realm of heightened creative energy.

In our understanding, the language of the heart is where your spirit lives, and the language of the heart is truth.”A young man enters the tipi and announces that Elie is needed at the sweat lodge to begin the fasting ceremony.

My uncles, aunties, parents and grandparents, they all packed food. So we’re sitting there waiting for his answer and he said, ‘Far as I know… those been there forever.’ He meant at least four or five thousand years.

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