This episode traces the continuity of Indigenous spiritual law in Tyendinaga through documented history and lived experience. Drawing from the 1855 investigation led by Indian Agent T.G. Anderson and the 1931 court trial involving Wm “Horse” Maracle and Sarah Jane Maracle, we examine how colonial systems attempted to label our spiritual practices as witchcraft while failing to understand the law and responsibility behind them. These records do not expose superstition. They confirm what blood memory has always carried. The strength of Clan governance, the presence of medicine, and the refusal of our ancestors to surrender their gifts are not remnants of the past. They remain active truths that continue to shape who we are, despite every effort to erase them.
