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The story begins in 1620. The Mayflower lands in what’s now New England, as religious wars were tearing Europe apart. Later that same year, another ship leaves the “New World,” bound for France. On it was a young Innu boy. We know his name: Pastedechouan. The fact that we know it is the result of the historical detective work by Professor Emma Anderson, at the University of Ottawa. She scoured the 17th-century records of French missionaries, notably the chronicles by the Récollets (a wing of the Franciscans) and the Jesuit Relations, and in 2007…