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Since Time Immemorial/Algonquin Traditional Culture • 337
Anishinàbeg needs to be known and
understood by Natives and non-Natives
alike. If nothing else, knowledge of
this history would facilitate the general
public’s understanding of why Eastern
Ontario, for example, is currently the
subject of a comprehensive land claim
and that we are legally squatters on
someone else’s land. This would provide
much-needed detail to the otherwise
hollow-sounding affirmation that before
Champlain, “First Nations used to live
here.” In this regard, I am certain that
Jim Pendergast would have welcomed
both of these publications.
REFERENCES CITED
Clément, D.
1996 The Algonquins. Canadian Ethnology
Service Mercury Series No.130,
Canadian Museum of Civilization,
Hull.
Pendergast, J.F.
1999 Ottawa River Algonquin Bands
in a St. Lawrence Iroquoian Context.
Canadian Journal of Archaeology 23:
63–136.
Jean-Luc Pilon
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Gatineau, Québec
Journal Canadien d’Archéologie 30 (2006)