Regina city council rejected renaming Dewdney Ave., at Wednesday's city council.
An Indigenous advocate says she's disappointed after Regina city council rejected an effort to rename a street that bears the moniker of a man who helped institute Canada's reserve system and establish Indian residential schools.
Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway says the vote is a slap in the face to her and the many organizations that supported changing the street name. a petition requesting that the city strip the Dewdney name from its assets, including a park, pool and the avenue, the pool and park were "To me, that's what Edgar Dewdney wanted, and too bad for him, I'm not dead. There's many Indigenous people within this community.", in part because of "how very little is really known" about his role in a starvation policy intended to quell dissent and force Indigenous people out of the Cypress Hills area of southwest Saskatchewan.
Rob Innes, an associate professor in the Indigenous studies program at McMaster University, says the decision 'sends a message that … we don't care about your history, we don't care what happened to you. But you have to walk on the street, you have to go on the street every day.' Innes acknowledges the argument that there could be costs to renaming for the many businesses on Dewdney Avenue, which might not have been the case in renaming efforts in other cities.
"That railway was going to run north of the Cypress Hills, and that's when began kind of the starvation of the First Nation bands out of the Cypress Hills.… That's kind of how Carry the Kettle is tied directly to Edgar E. Dewdney," said Spencer."He was the guy who helped create their reserves in the Cypress Hills, and he was also the guy who helped remove them and kind of starve them to their new location just south of Indian Head, Sask.
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