The Fish are Getting Weiry

• The Fish are Getting Weiry...
•         What does the Community have at Stake?
•                 Bridging The Gap at the Narrows

• Perched at the Narrows to deepen our view
• Is a bridge with a story only known by a few
• Native Legend, Loon Calls and Mnjikaning Deer
• Mark the Sacred Site known as the Ancient Fish Weirs.

• Once sturgeon did roam where perch are now fished
• Orillia taps taste of sludge, healthy water sure is missed
• Especially in summer when the sunshine reminds us
• of a history divine that now seems far behind us.

• How many generations will wait til they’re old
• To hear the fine stories that First Nations told
• Let’s drum up new vision, verse, legend and song
• And toast to the ancestors whose fish fence belongs

• To a history of healing, 5000 n 30,000 years
• Leacock and Lightfoot ....moved ...by a trail of tears...
• The story of the Fish Weirs, Huron and Ojibway Nations
• We share mutual goals as Mnjiikaning Stewards of reconciliation

• A history of drum, verse, legend and song
• In community with sunshine, cultural arts do belong
• Wish the Stories of Leacock and Lightfoot could tell
• Of pure water that government finds easy to sell

• For trade-offs of fur, with silver and gold
• A history of healing is no longer told
• It’s bad enough now that the water tastes of sludge
• Community wellness at stake, me thinks we need smudge

• Oh Really, Orillia...beyond Excedrin to boast
• Native stories of healing, a 5000 year host
• With Mnjikaning Fish Weirs we now make a toast
• The best hospital in Canada on our sunshine coast?

• With Couchiching, Simcoe, Twin Lakes by the Narrows,
• Native history as deep as the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs
• No wonder that Leacock and Lightfoot could thrive
• The spirit of Manitou has kept them alive.

• With the culture of music, Mariposa was founded
• Both Leacock and Lightfoot were soon to astound us
• International interest in Orillia was fetched
• On the basis of a very fine, funny Sunshine Sketch

• And perched at the narrows to deepen our view
• Is a bridge with a story only known by a few
• Native Legend, Loon Calls and the Mnjikaning Deer
• Mark the Sacred Site known as the ancient Fish Weirs

• Orillia, Oh Really...the best place by far
• joins Mnjikaning Bridge and Jake Gaudaur
• In celebrating history that’s 5000 years old
• There’s a Sunshine Sketch missing that needs to be told.

• The sketch of the Gatherings that occurred at the Narrows
• Native history inspires our health and bone marrow
• The sprit of healing surrounds us today
• Community Wellness needs storytelling...the Indigenous way

• Orillia banks on a sunshine coast
• with shorelines so beautiful, only a few can boast
• of an ancient history beyond 5000 years
• The Mnjikaning Story of the ancient Fish Weirs

• The Irony of those Leacock Tales
• The Harmony of the Lightfoot Trails
• A healing centre, a rainbow’s view
• A double bridge rainbow for me and for you.