Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow-Wow 2006

Peter: 1st Aug 2006 - 17:10 GMT

wow... i had never heard of the oka crisis before... that was an interesting read! also: nice pics...

EvilGentleman: 1st Aug 2006 - 17:18 GMT

Chris: Beats the heck out of me. I also have no clue what Canadian bacon is, either.

Peter: Thanks, and for a more detailed wiki read of the Oka Crisis, be sure to check the discussion page. A lot of surprising stuff is discussed there. Try to picture French-Canadian Catholic KKK members trying to incite attacks on Indians, and you get the general picture.

Chris Erb: 1st Aug 2006 - 21:09 GMT

Canadian Bacon is the American word for back bacon. It's really thick pieces of bacon that are just terrible for you. I used to love it when I ate meat.

EvilGentleman: 1st Aug 2006 - 22:36 GMT

Scones scone (bread) are a flatbread of Scottish origin adopted heavily by Canadian Indians, particularly the Cree, Ojibwa and Chipewyan.

For Indian tacos, look at frybread

anne from Ireland Europe: 21st May 2007 - 22:09 GMT

The Mohawks of Kahnawake made me so welcome for so many years without even knowing it.

EvilGentleman: 21st May 2007 - 22:31 GMT

My grandmother's aunt and her husband, Jack McMullen raised my grandmother through most of her childhood. My grandmother was 100% Mohawk, but was raised to love both Mohawk and Irish culture. Uncle Jack was a 'Derry Catholic who came to Canada after serving in World War I. He almost served in the Boer War, but it ended just before he was old enough to join up.

He and his wife never had kids, but his name lives on, as the lane next to the family home is called "Mullen Lane". The house was built in the late 1800's and passed from my great-great-grandfather to my grandmother's aunt, to my grandmother, and now on to my father.

Although I am not related to uncle Jack, there is an Irish aspect to my family. He was known as Jack over here, but he grew up as Séan, pretty much the same as me. Uncle Jack passed away when I was 7, at the age of 92.