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6 Indigenous L.J. 1 (2007)

handle is hein.journals/ilj6 and id is 1 raw text is: WELCOME ADDRESS DARLENE JOHNSTON* Meegwetch, Elder Grafton Antone. Aaniin, Boozhoo, Sekoh, Tansi, Hello, Bonjour, and Welcome to the University of Toronto. Elder Grafton Antone reminded us that sometimes if we are lucky and we ask for something, it is provided to us. Last night as I was falling asleep I was a bit nervous about what I would say today. I got as far as Aaniin, Boozhoo, Sekoh, Tansi. When I woke up this morning, the first thing I thought of was Taddle Creek. I owe part of this story to my cousin John Borrows. We are both from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, and we share the same great- grandfather, Charles Kegedonce Jones. John was a law professor here at the University of Toronto before me, and he got to know the history of this place and its landscape. Before the University was here, and before the city of Toronto was here, there was a creek that ran from the high ground up north, all the way down to the lake. By pioneer times, this creek was known as Taddle Creek. When Hart House was first built, the southern part of Taddle Creek was dammed up, which resulted in quite a lovely pond. But the creek still flowed from the north, down through what is now Philosopher's Walk. By the 1870s, people started to complain about the creek because it had become a sewer for the Victorian mansions built along it. The pond was starting to smell. The city's solution was to bury the creek. So the creek went underground, and this facilitated the development of other buildings on the university grounds, including a rugby field at Hart House, our soccer pitch, and eventually the expansion of this law school. Now we are underground in a space that used to be shared by the creek, and from time to time the creek makes its B.A. (Queen's University), LL.B. (University of Toronto), LL.M. (University of Toronto). After working as Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Professor Johnston resigned her academic position in order to coordinate land claims research and litigation for her community, the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. Her advocacy contributed to the judicial recognition of her people's treaty right to the commercial fishery and to the recovery and protection of burial grounds and other culturally significant sites within their traditional territory. She joined the University of Toronto in 2002 as an Assistant Professor and Aboriginal Student Advisor. Her teaching areas include Aboriginal Law and Property Law. Her current research focuses on the relationship between totemic identity, territoriality and governance. In 2006, Professor Johnston was featured in a special exhibit as one of the University of Toronto Law School's Women Trailblazers. Indigenous Law Journal/Volume 6/Issue 1/2007

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