Village Squire, 1977-09, Page 40geographers, geologists, computer special-
ists and medical researchers.
Dr. Finlayson sees the expansion of the
Museum gallery as the first step in an
ambitious scheme for exploring the area's
prehistory. He also sees the museum's
function in human terms.
"If information about the nature and
history of this long occupation of Ontario
by Indians were more available to the local
public, it would create a greater
knowledge, interest and respect for
Indians.
"Too, it would provide the local native
people with knowledge which would help
them obtain a better understanding for and
pride in their ancestry," Dr. Finlayson
says.
Western has been active in . Indian
archaelogy mainly through the efforts of
Dr. Finlayson in recent years and
particularly under Drs. Wilfrid and Elsie
Jury before that. Over the last 50 years the
Jurys have been involved in the
construction of the popular Midland Indian
villaee. the construction of Ste. Marie -
among -the -Hurons, the 19th century fort
at Penetanguishene and, locally the
Fanshawe Pioneer Village. Dr. Wilfrid
Jury is honorary curator of the UWO
Museum of Indian Archaeology.
Dr. Finlayson took over as Director in
1976. He has been responsible for the
investigations of the 450 year-old Huron
Indian village located on the site of the
proposed Pickering Airport. Contracts
totalling close to $400,000 were provided or
arranged by the National Museum of Man
for work there.
The 31 year-old archaeologist has also
conducted research locally at the prehistor-
ic Southworld earthworks located 22 miles
southwest of London. Until now most of the
Museum's work has been carried out away
from the region largely because no funding
was available for archaeological work in
this area.
"What we are planning to do on the local
site is unique for Ontario," he comments.
"We will be rebuilding the 450 year-old
Indian village on the exact spot just as it
looked then." Indian villages familar to
most Ontario school children and tourists
are models and not actual on-site
reconstructions.
Dr. Finlayson plans to make the Neutral
village, located near Highway 22 and
Hutton Rd. on the outskirts of London, the
first on-site reconstruction in the province.
The village covers about four acres. Buried
under grass and trees now, only the trained
eye can see the outlines of the earthworks
which were once the base of the village
stockade. Once a prosperous community of
about 1,000 Iroquois -speaking Neutrals, it
was abandoned hundreds of years ago after
the surrounding land had been farmed out
by this agricultural band.
Work on this project will be added to the
Museum's impressive list of accomplish-
ments, which over the last 12 years have
included grants and contracts for over $2
million.
The Museum of Indian Archaeology
plans to devote itself to examination of the
archaeological discoveries spanning 11,000
years of this region's prehistory.
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