Welcome to all community members!

Our Council is a direct democracy where all members have a voice. While we are affiliates of OCIP/CAP provincial and National organizations our community is actively involved independently with cultural and economic development!

"Ohnéganasda-thek Gajyęha-ye-uh-oh" is Onandago for "Sparkling water council fire"

WE ARE THE ONTARIO "WIISAAKODE" PEOPLE. "OBJIBWE FOR "MIXED BLOOD". DESCENDANTS OF FIRST NATIONS PEOPLES CATEGORIZED AS OFF RESERVE STATUS, NON-STATUS, METIS, AND INUIT.

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE REASONS WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE REGISTERED WITH YOUR INDEPENDANT LOCAL REGIONAL COUNCIL:
1. PRIVACY (NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
2. OPEN TO MEMBERS 24/7
3. COMMUNICATION WITH ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS NO MATTER WHERE THEY LIVE!
4. EASY DISCUSSION AND VOTING!
5. THE LATEST NEWS MONTHLY AND MORE OFTEN FOR BREAKING NEWS!
6, ALWAYS WELCOME!
7. WE SHARE EQUALLY IN THE ECONOMIC SUCCESS OF OUR COMMUNITY!
8. OUR DEVELOPMENT IS ALL BASED ON 'PAYING IT FORWARD' TO PROVIDE A SECURE FUTURE FOR OUR DESCENDANT CHILDREN!

ONTARIO SHIMMERING WATER INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY - Registration

AGREEMENT

I fully support upholding our inherent birthrights and responsibilities as original people(s). This includes acknowledging our diverse lived experiences and practicing our cultural traditions to the best of our abilities, while also respecting each other's diverse identities and ways of life. I'm committed to engaging with and stewarding our ancestral lands in a way that honors Mother Earth as a living, breathing entity. I will strive to ensure that my decisions and behaviors honor our interconnectedness as relatives in creation, recognizing that our actions impact not only myself and our community but also future generations.

Our Allies:
As an ally, I commit to working with OCIP to uphold the inherent birthrights of Indigenous peoples (FNMI) and to restore their rightful role as stewards of their ancestral homelands, which has been for generations and continues to be disrupted by the settler and colonial government of Canada ."

I fully support our birthright to express our identities, cultural practices, and spiritualities in ways that honor our right to self-determination and self-governance, which have been passed down through our ancestral connections intergenerationally.

Our Allies:
I fully support the birthright of Indigenous peoples to express their identities, cultural practices, and spiritualities in ways that reflect their self-determination and self-governance, as passed down through their ancestors.

Indigenous and Allies
I recognize the Ontario Coalition of Indigenous People(s) (OCIP) and its National Affiliate, the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) as a separate and self-governing entity from the restrictions of the Indian Act and all other oppressive, racist and sexist legislation meant to assimilate and oppress Indigenous peoples. I understand it will take generations to recover from the impacts of colonization.

I believe in a respectful process for creating peace and working toward a new relationship of conciliation. It involves efforts to bring about mutual agreement or harmony, often through dialogue, negotiation, and consensus. We hope to advance the social, political and economic wellbeing of the people we represent.

I identify with one of the following colonial categories:

I'm identified as
1.Status on or off reserve (territory)
2.Non-Status
3.Metis
4. Inuit
5. Non Indigenous Ally