When the tie was broken in 1871, it was the Indians who took the initiative to have it restored; in the process they articulated the long- term strategy that their leaders had been developing since the first foray in 1832. This time it was Augustine Shingwauk who made the long journey by canoe, and now also by ‘fire-wagon,’ to Sarnia, London, and Toronto, He explained to Protestant clerics that Garden River, to which the Anglicans had ministered for forty years, was now without a Christian missionary. He asked them to redirect a young English cleric, E.F. Wilson, to his people. The Indian Committee of the Church of England gravely considered Shingwauk’s request.

      “When they told me that they thought Wilson would come to be our missionary and live among us. I said to them, “Thank you. Thank you greatly. This is the reason for which I came.”

      Augustine Shingwauk was grateful because he thought the results of his journey meant the realization of a strategy that the Ojibwa of Garden River had developed for adjusting to the Euro-Canadian society. When the Anglican missionaries in Toronto asked Shingwauk to address them further, he took the opportunity to enlighten them on the Indians’ reasoning. At Garden River, he explained,

      "We were well content, for we had the Gospel preached to us now for forty winters, and we felt that our religious wants had been well attended to; but when I consider how great and how powerful is the English nation,