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Outside the Woodland Cultural Centre’s administration building and former residential school.
themes such as the anniversary vase
and blue creation story piece. He sells
his work primarily at professional galleries,
including The Native Art Gallery
in Oakville.
Easier to locate is the Two Turtle
Studio (519 751-2774; www.twoturtle.com)
Middleport Plaza, Highway
54, owned by Arnold Aron Jacobs. For
fifteen years, Arnold worked as a
graphic artist in Hamilton until he
turned his attention to his own art and
heritage in the mid-1980s. His gallery
showcases his paintings and the stone
carvings of local artists, along with a
museum-style display of the story of
his airplane. In 2001, Arnold was
selected to design a First Nations
inspired symbol, called Free Spirit, on
an Air Canada Boeing 767 aircraft.The
plane has flown around the world and
is still in operation today.
Should the call of an overnight stay
seduce you,the best accommodation in
Six Nations is The Bears Inn (519 445-
4133; www.thebearsinn.com). It’s a
unique combination of private-home
hospitality with hotel privacy in one of
two log cabin-style buildings constructed
specifically for use as accommodations.Each
room is a self-contained unit
with its own bathroom, telephone,
cable television and wireless Internet.
The log houses, separate from the
family home, are designed to mimic
the style of the small building already
on the property and the type of buildings
early residents of this area would
have lived in. (Sorry, no teepees existed
in this region — it’s too cold.) Each
room is themed after historic figures
and moments in First Nation History.
The Brant room, for instance, has a
small sitting area with a sofa beneath
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a picture of a Mohawk warrior and
glass French doors that open into the
bedroom area that’s decorated with
cottage-like pine wood furniture and
teal-coloured floral bedding. Each
room is slightly different, from the
Jay’s Treaty suite ($80) with one
queen and two twin beds to the Three
Sister’s guest room with one queen
bed ($60). Continental breakfast and
coffee is available every morning until
9:30 a.m.
Ohsweken is about contemporary
culture; it’s about the lifestyle and the
living standards, interests and livelihoods
of 21st-century Canadian aboriginal
people.To get a taste of ancient
history you’ll have to drive a little further
a field (about 15 minutes) to
Brantford where there are two notable
options for historical engagement
within blocks of each other: the