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Gaawiin Ogiibagidenaawaasiiwaawan/They Did Not Let It Go: Robert Houle

Museum London, Ontario

September 12, 2020–January 24, 2021

The Canadian government’s occupation of Anishinaabe lands in Ipperwash, ON, and its refusal to return these territories to their ancestral keepers, culminates in an uneasy history at the centre of , an exhibition at Museum London. The Anishinaabemowin title is a declaration of remembrance that commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Ipperwash Crisis, a major land dispute that catalyzed protests by members of the Stony Point First Nation who fought for the return of their ancestral homelands. It

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