Whitefish Island

Whitefish Island is an island within the St. Marys River, simply south of Sault Ste. Marie, in Ontario, Canada.It become an ancestral fishing station to the Anishenabek of the Great Lakes region for over 2,000 years. It changed into reserved for the use of Chief 'Joe Sayer' Nebenaigoching and his band within the Robinson Huron Treaty, 1850 with the British Crown.In 1895 it have become a part of the west aspect of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.After it became taken in a chain of expropriations from 1902-1913 for railway purposes, it became a park inside the Parks Canada country wide inventory. The island was special a National Historic Site of Canada in 1981.

A land claim become filed in 1982 through the Batchewana Indian Band, of the Batchewana First Nation of Ojibways, for the 22-acre island. After years of unsuccessful negotiations, hereditary Chief Edward James Sayers Nebenaigoching occupied the island from 1989 until the claim turned into settled in 1992. 3.5 million greenbacks in damages have been paid to the tribe, and the island turned into lower back to Indian reserve repute in 1997.