with the Mississauga, Saugeen and Nawash. By 1861 William, not Catherine, agreed to the conditions of sale, but he was still negotiating a reduction in price for his lots until 1871. He felt he should get the reduction that had been previously offered to his wife and his neighbors of $3.00 an acre. Catherine died on Sept 26th 1865 before these negotiations were finalized. In the end he paid $5.00 an acre. Finally, he received the deeds for Lots 32 and 33. By then he was living on Lot 33, along with Catherine's mother Mary KaKaKe and her children, Martha and Moses, whom he'd been taking care of since Mary's husband disappeared. He was also supporting his own younger children and his grandchildren by his daughter, Sophia Staves, who had died in 1875. William Sutton had a lot on his plate financially. Burial Catherine was buried in her garden on Lot 34. Catherine and William's neighbor Charles Julyan recorded going to Nahnebahwequa's funeral, where at her own request, she was buried in her garden. This is substantiated in Julyan's letter to Joseph Howe in 1871. Catherine made sure she was buried on the very lot for which she had been trying to get a deed. This certainly was one way they could not remove her. One way or another she was staying. Catherine was laid to rest On the land she loved In the bosom of Mother Earth She found comfort within her She has become the earth. The spring rain falls to her And rises, to become clouds to rain again like tears. She is in the whisper of the wind in the trees The birds ring out her sorrow In cries of needed justice for her people The song they sing is for her children to have a home Catherine has a home in heaven now No earthly hands can sell. References Sources External links Grey Roots Museum & Archives: Catherine Sutton exhibition images Ojibwe people History of Mississauga First Nations history in Ontario 1824 births 1865 deaths