The reserves serve as the land base for the Chippewas (Anishnaabeg) of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation.

Residents were evicted, and moved into the Kettle Point First Nation, with unhappy consequences and social tension.

In the 1990s, during rising political activism, band members who had ties to the Stony Point reserve began occupying parts of the base in 1993.

On Labour Day 1995, band members barricaded part of neighbouring Ipperwash Provincial Park to promote their land claim.

During a confrontation with Ontario Provincial Police at the protest, an Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) man, KSPFN band member, Dudley George, was shot and killed.

Native groups called for an official inquiry into George's death, but none was launched until the provincial government changed in 2003.

Ontario officially returned the land to the First Nation in 2009, but they will govern it together for some time, in order to manage environmental and other issues.

Spherical or ovoid concretions of rock, locally called "kettles", weather out of the shale along the shoreline.

[6] Just offshore, below the Kettle Point formation, is a layer of the Hamilton Group of shales and limestones which contains a large amount of light-coloured, high-quality chert.