Six Nations land defenders celebrate win number two

A concert was held Saturday afternoon, a celebration of sorts for those who have spent most of the past year trying to stop a housing development in Caledonia.

The concert came days after McKenzie Meadows developer Foxgate Developments announced the build, now a 25-acre front line in the assertion of Indigenous land rights, had been cancelled amid an ongoing occupation by Six Nations land defenders.

It has been nearly 350 days since land defenders stopped work at the construction site, claiming the land was unceded Haudenosaunee territory and renaming it 1492 Land Back Lane.

The concert took place at Kanonhstaton, also known as the former Douglas Creek Estates development - the subject of a similar land dispute nearly 15 years ago.

On stage with performers was the paint-splattered head of Egerton Ryerson, the 19th-century educator who helped shape Canada's residential school system,

Ryerson's statue was toppled from its perch at the Toronto university that bears his name during a protest in early June, following the discovery of the remains of 215 children buried on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. .

Performers included local musicians and artists from the Six Nations community, such as Derek Miller, Blaine Bomberry and Jace Martin, as well as Hamilton's Tom Wilson and rising star Logan Staats.