Cottagers, Indians and an evasive species - Windspeaker.com

Cottagers, Indians and an evasive species Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share   By Drew Hayden Taylor Originally published in December 2015 A little over 50 kilometres north of Peterborough, Ont., a tempest is brewing involving people who have spent huge amounts of money to buy or build cottages on the shores of Pigeon Lake in the last couple of decades, and an Indigenous form of grain harvested by First Nations people for thousands of years. It’s a battle of aesthetics and culture, property values and subsistence, of Muskoka chairs and an Indigenous pilaf. At the heart of this issue is a fun…