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Title Living treaties : narrating Mi'kmaw treaty relations / Marie Battiste, editor
Published Sydney, Nova Scotia : Cape Breton University Press, 2016

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Contents Introduction : Narrating Mi'kmaw Treaties: Linking the Past to the Future / Marie Battiste -- 1. Negotiating for Life and Survival / Stephen J. Augustine -- 2. My Tribe, My Heirs and Their Heirs Forever: Living Mi'kmaw Treaties / Pamela Palmater -- 3. Treaty and Mi'gmewey / Fred Metallic -- 4. Mi'kmaw Relations / Patrick J. Augustine -- 5. Treaty Denied: The 1928 Trial of Grand Chief Gabriel Sylliboy / Jaime Battiste -- 6. Memories of an ex-Indian Agent / Stuart Killen -- 7. Alexander Denny and the Treaty Imperative / James [Sa'kej] Youngblood Henderson -- 8. The Personality of a Nation / Russel Barsh -- 9. Treaty Advocacy and Treaty Imperative through Mi'kmaw Leadership: Remembering with Joe B. Marshall / Jaime Battiste -- 10. Beyond Cultural Differences: Interpreting a Treaty Between the Mi'kmaq and British at Belcher's Farm, 1761 / Natasha Simon -- 11. Racism and Treaty Denied / Daniel N. Paul -- 12. Litigating Section 35 Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Nova Scotia / Douglas E. Brown -- 13. Born to Fish / Kerry Prosper -- 14. Tables, Talks and Treaties / Victor Carter-Julian -- 15. Becoming a Language Warrior / Naiomi Metallic -- 6. Kina'matnewey Education: How Our Ancestors Imagined Our Success / Eleanor Tu'ti Bernard -- 17. Resilience and Resolution: Mi'kmaw Education and the Treaty Implementation / Marie Battiste -- Appendix 1 Declaration of Aboriginal Rights -- Appendix 2 Archival Research, Treaties, and the Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq: Aboriginal Rights Position Paper and Acknowledgements -- Appendix 3 Communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee About Treaty Violations (1980)
Summary "Regardless of Canada's governmental attitude of entitlement, First Nations, Métis and Inuit lands and resources are still tied to treaties and other documents. Their relevance seems forever in dispute, so it is important to know about them, to read them, to hear them and to comprehend their constitutional significance in contemporary life. Living Treaties aims to reveal another side of the treaties and their histories, focusing on stories from contemporary perspectives, both Mi'kmaw and their non-Mi'kmaw allies, who have worked with, experienced and indeed lived with the treaties at various times over the last fifty years. These authors have had experiences contesting the Crown's version of the treaty story, or have been rebuilding the Mi'kmaq and their nation with the strength of their work from their understandings of Mi'kmaw history. They share how they came to know about treaties, about the key family members and events that shaped their thinking and their activism and life's work. Treaties were negotiated in good faith with the King or Queen with an objective of shared benefits to both parties and members. In Living Treaties, the authors offer the stories of those who have lived under the colonial regime of a not-so-ancient time. Herein are passionate activists and allies who uncover the treaties, and their contemporary meanings, to both Mi'kmaq and settler societies and who speak to their future with them. Here also are the voices of a new generation of Indigenous lawyers and academics who have made their life choices with credentials solidly in hand in order to pursue social and cognitive justice for their families and their people. Their mission: to enliven the treaties out of the caverns of the public archives, to bring them back to life and to justice as part of the supreme law of Canada; and to use them to mobilize the Mi'kmaw restoration and renaissance that seeks to reaffirm, restore and rebuild Mi'kmaw identity, consciousness, knowledges and heritages, as well as our connections and rightful resources to our land and ecologies."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Micmac Indians -- Claims
Micmac Indians -- Land tenure
Micmac Indians -- Government relations
Micmac Indians -- History
Micmac Indians
Micmac Indians -- Government relations
Micmac Indians -- Land tenure
Genre/Form Electronic books
Claims
History
Form Electronic book
Author Battiste, Marie, 1949- editor
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