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Leyland Cecco in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg

‘We didn’t sign that treaty’: in Canada, the Anishinaabe fight for land they never gave up

An older man with bright white hair and moustache in a blue-and-black checked shirt stands with his hands in his pockets amid stunningly bright yellow trees.
Chief Duncan Michano of the Pic River First Nation stands on the now forested site of the former community of Heron Bay South last year. Photograph: David Jackson/The Guardian

When he was growing up, Duncan Michano dreamed of one day retracing the route his Anishinaabe ancestors travelled in birch-bark canoes, from the dunes of Lake Superior’s northern shoreline to the community of Longlac – a journey through more than 200km (125 miles) of wilderness

Years spent on the land in northern Ontario kindled a deep desire to also traverse those forests, exposed bedrock and frothy rapids that elders spoke of.

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