Brock community takes in border crossing

Members of the Brock community, including students and staff, were present as the Indian Defense League of America completed its 90th anniversary crossing of the Canada-United States border in Niagara Falls last weekend. Students participated in the event as an experiential learning exercise for a class about Canada’s history and related indigenous issues. The class is taught by Sakoieta Widrick, an instructor from Brock’s Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education, who has been a member of the event’s planning committee for several years. The border walk celebrates the Jay Treaty of 1794 and continues to call on the Government of Canada to recognize this historic agreement that was signed by the British Crown, United States and the Six Nations Haudenosaunee Iroquois Confederacy.