Long before the recent arrival of non-Indigenous settlers, the Ottawa River Valley had, for millennia, been home to the Algonquin Anishinaabe people and their ancestors.
Dr. Lynn Gehl, an Algonquinmakes the case that we have yet to resolve crucial issues such as that our national capital – the “heart of Canada” continues to trespass on the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg and that violation of Algonquin rights continue.
View this recording of the HSO’s February 2026 conversation with Dr. Lynn Gehl, Anishinaabe Algonquin advocate, academic, artist, and author:
