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- Founded as Ardoch Algonquin and Allies around 1980 by Harold Perry (Algonquin) and Bob Lovelace (white American). Since at least 2005, the organization has been run by white, non-Algonquins (Bob Lovelace, Randy Cota, Mireille Lapointe) with either no Algonquin ancestry or an Algonquin ancestor in 1600s.
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- Registration process is unclear. The AAFN regularly recognizes white non-Algonquins as members, including professors, teachers, administrators, and etc.
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- AAFN members are particularly influential in Indigenous circles in the Kingston and Peterborough areas, including at Queen’s University and Trent University.
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- While a couple Algonquin families in and around Ardoch in the late 1800s were connected to local Mohawk and Mississauga communities, today’s AAFN leadership aren’t the descendants of these families.
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- Chief of Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn clarified that AAFN isn’t actually a First Nation.
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