BACK ROADS BILL: Rocks, vistas and spirituality

We have a lot of rock in Northern Ontario which is rich and unique in geological terms and has tremendous mineral value sustaining people in many ways.

Jonathan’s late father-in-law was originally a member of Nipissing First Nation, and he had the opportunity to learn from community members who carry knowledge. He said, “These practices are still used in contemporary times, limited to a few times throughout the year. Many sites, regardless of purpose are secret or at the very least concealed to protect them. Some may no longer be used as they once were due to the introduction of settlers and industrialization.

“The knowledge of sites is passed down within communities and families. Keep in mind what Turtle Island looked like prior to the advent of Europeans and the diverse First Nations and widespread cultures and peoples with an intense ceremonial life within a very rich spiritual landscape who inhabited this land for tens of thousands of years.

Dr. Pitt said in Hap Wilson’s Trials and Tribulations: Confessions of a Wilderness Pathfinder book he references “Aninshnabe linguistic expert and historian Craig Macdonald says of Chee-skon, "the name is derived from the root word for ‘shaking tent’ – the seven-poled open topped shelter used by medicine healers . Chee-skon was, and still is, a place of powerful divination.

It is a place that is more than a hill to its members of the Temagami First Nation, it is a holy place. "Maple Mountain is one of our most sacred sites. All our spirits go there after death," says Chief Alex Paul in August of 2006. Brian Beck reported at the time, “It is ironic that while the vandals were spray painting personal messages to a deceased loved one they were defiling the final resting place of the loved ones of an entire nation.

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