By Lisa Iesse Writer Norfolk County’s Bayview cemetery, is within a one kilometre radius of First Nation burial sites dating back thousands of years. Tanya Hill-Montour, a Six Nations archaeological supervisor says there are “Indigenous burials all over” the area of Long Point near where the Bayview cemetery, built by European settlers in the 1800s, sits. Long Point is a beach landform on the north shore of Lake Erie. She said there are at least six burial sites in the Long Point area, just within a 1 km radius. The soft “sandy soil”, which is easy to dig, made the space ideal for First Nations ancestors to bury their loved ones back then, explained Montour. It’s also the site of the well known “Shaman of Long Point” an Indigenous man…
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