Monument for
the Native Americans
Installation in Montreal -Québec, august 2006
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"La Pointe-à-Callière"
is an historical place in Montreal: it is were the St-Laurent
river joined another one (this one don't exist anymore) where
the colonists built the first houses of the town.
Here today, you can find the musuem of archaeology and history,
a square and a parc.
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- On
the raised square, where a very few pedestrians go, a plaque on
the floor commemorate the signature of the peace treaty between
colonists and indigenous (few signatures of chiefs are reproduced).
This sheet is hard to see. Hard to read also. |
view from the back of the square |
closer: the central sheet is the one concerning
the indigenous. |
- In
the parc, an obelisk of several metres high: the monument to the
founders of the city and to the first colonists.
Text you can find on one side of the monument :
"The 18th may 1893
this monument was installed
by
The Historical Society of Montreal
to remember
the generous founders of this town
and
the first colonists arrived here in
1642."
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I installed next to this
monument my own construction, built on the same way (in wood and
colored in green-blue-yellow, with a black face) to commemorate
the Native Americans. |
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Text of my "monument":
"The 19th august 2006
this monument was installed
by
a french anonymous women
to remember
millions of Native Americans
who
were living on this territory
since thousands years." |
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