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Newash Ojibway |
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The Newash village was located in what is now known as Brooke, the northwest area of Owen Sound. The Gother Mann map of Lake Huron has an "Indian encampment" noted in the vicinity of Newash in 1788. Bayfield's 1822 chart also notes a winter village "for the Indians" there. Chief James Newash (Nawash) was a War Chief of the Western Tribes in the War of 1812. There is a photographic image showing him in later years. George McDougall, a shipbuilder at Owen Sound, became a Methodist missionary, and helped at Newash village. His son, John McDougall, spent a lot of time there as a lad, and recalled in one of his books about how he got into a sap trough of maple sugar there once. The McDougalls later moved to what is now Alberta, when they continued their missionary work. The "Indian Agent's" house in the 19th-century is now known as 344 23rd St. West. The former Newash mission school building from the 1840s was 343 24th St. West. There were burials in the area. 1857 maps show the position of the "Indian Graveyard". The book, THE INDIAN CHIEF (1867), re David Sawyer, an Ojibwa/Anishnaabe man, originally from the Credit River area, describes some of the Ojibwa at Newash. Like William and Catharine Sutton, he had moved north from the Credit River Indian Mission to assist the Newash Band in the mid-1840s. The Newash people were removed from the Newash Reserve in 1857, and had to relocate to Cape Croker. Treaty 82 (1857). Sometimes they would return to Brooke, to visit their former home. Although the spelling on old documents and maps shows "Newash", the preferred spelling now is "Nawash". On July 1, 2017, the Gitche Namewikwedong Reconciliation Garden at Kelso Beach was dedicated. It is to be situated near the pedestrian bridge near the Pottawatomie River. - - - "Original Indian School in Brooke Still Stands, Now Used as a Residence", THE OWEN SOUND SUN-TIMES, Sat. Dec. 26, 1959. 1962.052.005 Indian Land Sale Grant to Wm McAvoy, Brooke, is dated Oct. 29 1862 1961.004.009 1857-1957 Centennial Booklet (Owen Sound), mentions the Newash School (p. 43). 1990.002.001 Map of the Town Reserve of Sydenham, by Charles Rankin, (pre-1857) has the Newash Village marked on it. -Dunn, Scott, "Reconciliation Garden to Tell Often Forgotten Story" THE OWEN SOUND SUN TIMES, p. 1 and A3. -Van Dusan, Conrad, THE INDIAN CHIEF (1867) |
