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The Anishinaabe City: Ogimaa Mikana
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From: Indigenous Toronto
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This chapter is about the Ogimaa Mikana Project, a campaign to restore Anishinaabemowin place names to the streets, avenues, roads, paths, and trails of Toronto, transforming a landscape that often obscures or renders invisible the presence of Indigenous peoples.
Contributors
Hayden King
Hayden King is Anishinaabe from Beausoleil First Nation on Gchi’mnissing in Huronia, Ontario, and a member of the Williams Treaty, which covers Toronto east of the Don River. Hayden is also the executive director of Yellowhead Institute and a professor of sociology at Toronto Metropolitain (prev. Ryerson) University.
Susan Blight
Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, photography, film, and social practice. Her solo and collaborative work engages questions of personal and cultural identity and its relationship to space. Susan is cofounder of Ogimaa Mikana, an artist collective working to reclaim and rename the roads and landmarks of Anishinaabeg territory with Anishinaabemowin. In August 2019, Susan joined OCAD University as Delaney Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture and as assistant professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies.
