November 4-8, 2025, marks Treaty Week in Ontario, an opportunity for us to grow in our understanding about legally binding treaties and their significance to Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships and the land.

Ward 1, in partnership with Hamilton's Indigenous Relations Team, presents: Wampum Belts Woven Through Anishinaabe History, presented by knowledge keeper, Brian Charles. The presentation will illuminate how wampum was used to record not only relationships and treaties between the First Peoples of the Eastern Woodland but also with settler societies in Canada.

Brian Charles is an off-reserve Band member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island and has worked collaboratively with a small group of knowledge keepers to research and assemble a physical repository of wampum belts connected to Ojibwa history.