lenaitch
Senior Member
I've been around for many decades, lived in both the northeast and northwest part of the province, and was fairly directly involved in First Nations communities for a few years. I have never seen or heard of the medicine wheel symbol until I saw the article about the T.O. sign in the paper. I would hazard a guess that without an explanatory plaque, most residents and visitors would be similarly ignorant of its meaning, even if it was historically accurate to Ontario or eastern Canada. The are many examples of ancient circular structures, but it seems that, in North American aboriginal history, the medicine wheel was prevalent with the Plains Indians - I stand to be corrected. So is this an issue of cultural appropriation by other First Nations?