Urban Land Institute
So in 1907, they devised a scheme for the reserve land to be surrendered — although the folks of St. Peter’s “utterly opposed it,” Froman stated. “There was pressure and resentment on the part of the settler population to take away Indigenous peoples from productive, valuable land,” stated Froman, who is Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River. The folks of St. Peter’s had been profitable farmers, mentioned Karen Froman, an assistant professor on the University of Winnipeg who teaches Indigenous historical past. At the turn of the twentieth century, land simply northeast of Winnipeg was known as the St. Peter’s Reserve — a predecessor to right now’s Peguis First Nation. In a matter of days, the flooding on Peguis First Nation, believed to be the worst the neighborhood in Manitoba’s Interlake has ever seen, displaced roughly 1,600 folks and ravaged hundreds of houses.
It has been estimated over …