Help with old token ID!

[Fossils]

Howdy folks. I found this token in the yard of a Victorian house permission the other day. It seems like a souvenir token related to forest conservation or some kind of National Park, but web searches don't seem to turn up anything close to it.

One side has a picture of a bison and reads "Grenda".

The other side reads: "Buffalo Medicine | Canada's National Parks | Save the Forests"

It's slightly squarish/clover in shape and holed, probably made of bronze.

Thoughts about age and origin?




Extra pic for scale with some pennies


Thanks for looking and happy hunting!

 

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[Lenrac2]

That is such a cool token! Congrats!!

 

[crashbandicoot]

can,t help with the ID but it,s lo mo cool!

 

[Bramblefind]

That's a beauty! I think the word is "Orenda."I found a few references. It looks like it dates to circa 1921-22. In the 1970s there was a numismatic article written about them. I found the reference but not the article yet-

Definition of orenda
: extraordinary invisible power believed by the Iroquois Indians to pervade in varying degrees all animate and inanimate natural objects as a transmissible spiritual energy capable of being exerted according to the will of its possessor


http://parkscanadahistory.com/publications/NPBr_annual_reports_1922-24.pdf


https://books.google.com/books?id=H...q="buffalo medicine" "national parks"&f=false

 

[Fossils]

That's a beauty! I think the word is "Orenda."I found a few references. It looks like it dates to circa 1921-22. In the 1970s there was a numismatic article written about them. I found the reference but not the article yet-

Definition of orenda
: extraordinary invisible power believed by the Iroquois Indians to pervade in varying degrees all animate and inanimate natural objects as a transmissible spiritual energy capable of being exerted according to the will of its possessor


http://parkscanadahistory.com/publications/NPBr_annual_reports_1922-24.pdf


https://books.google.com/books?id=H...q="buffalo medicine" "national parks"&f=false

Thank you for the incredible ID! The old reports match it perfectly. I am excited to have found one!