Editing Bruce Trigger (section)

==Honours and awards==
He received a number of academic awards and numerous other honours such as a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]] from 1976, he became a recipient of their [[Innis-Gérin Medal]] in 1985.<ref name="patterson_2014" /> In 1979 he was awarded the [[Cornplanter Medal]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Fenton |first=William N. |author-link=William N. Fenton |date=April 1980 |title=Frederick Starr, Jesse Cornplanter and the Cornplanter Medal for Iroquois Research |jstor=23169465 |journal=New York History |publisher=New York State Historical Association |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages= 186–199}}</ref> In 1991, he was recipient of the Québec Government's [[Prix Léon-Gérin]]. The Québec Government in 2001 made him an Officer of the [[National Order of Quebec]] while five years later, in 2005, he was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]].

His most cherished honour was his adoption in 1989 into the Great Turtle Clan of the [[Wyandot people|Wendat]] (Huron) Confederacy, with the name Nyemea.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Phillips |first1=Jackie S. |title=Bruce Graham Trigger (1937-2006) |journal=Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. |date=2007 |volume=Heft 18 |page=220}}</ref>

Trigger died of [[cancer]] on December 1, 2006. His archive is kept at the [[McGill University Archives]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/bruce-trigger-fonds|title=Bruce Trigger Fonds|website=McGill Library Archival Catalogue|language=en|access-date=2018-02-01}}</ref>