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Haudenosaunee sites of cultural importance damaged in Toronto's largest park

Watersnake Mound, a burial site for 3,000 years, in Toronto's High Park. Photo: Catherine Tammaro

Rastia'ta'non:ha, Seneca Nation man; wolf clan and supporters, sit amid a circle of fallen red oaks cradled within the confines of manmade hillocks and valleys on a beautiful High Park afternoon. This sensitive, natural habitat has been stripped of grass, the manmade dips and high points of this once beautiful environment lie barren and desolate. A dead tree stump at the top of the mound stands sentinel to the desecration, large oaks, birch and aspen over arch the place in seeming sadness.

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