The year 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the start of the Rideau Canal and Bytown – but how did this impact the Algonquin people, for whom the Ottawa Valley has been home for millennia?

Dr. Lynn Gehl makes the case that, two centuries later, we have yet to resolve crucial issues such as that our nation’s capital – the “heart of Canada” – continues to trespass on the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg and that the violation of Algonquin rights continues.

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Website: www.lynngehl.com 

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Public social media: https://www.facebook.com/LynnGehlAlgonquin/

Speaking Agent: https://speakerscanada.com/keynote-speaker/dr-lynn-gehl/

The Truth that Wampum Tells: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/the-truth-that-wampum-tells

Anishinaabeg Stories: https://www.amazon.ca/Anishinaabeg-Stories-Featuring-Petroglyphs-Petrographs/dp/0988157802

Claiming Anishinaabeg: https://uofrpress.ca/Books/C/Claiming-Anishinaabe

Gehl v Canada: https://uofrpress.ca/Books/G/Gehl-v-Canada

Policy Options: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/authors/lynn-gehl/

Briarpatch: https://briarpatchmagazine.com/contributors/view/gehl-lynn

Rabble: https://rabble.ca/author/lynn-gehl/

Canadian Dimension: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/author/lynn-gehl

Sentinel: https://watershedsentinel.ca/article/akikodjiwan/

The Gehl Report: https://www.lynngehl.com/indigenous-women-and-girls-with-disabilities-are-bigger-targets-of-sexual-violence.html