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• Title:Living treaties : narrating Mi'kmaw treaty relations / Marie Battiste, editor.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Battiste, Marie Ann, editor.
  Augustine, Stephen J. (Stephen Joseph), 1949- Negotiating for life and survival.
  Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Sydney, Nova Scotia : Cape Breton University Press, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: MCH B38 L58 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Mi'kmaq--Treaties--Study and teaching
  Mi'kmaq--Aboriginal rights--Government policy
  Mi'kmaq--Treaties--History
  Mi'kmaq--Legal status, laws, etc.
  Mi'kmaq--Activism
  Mi'kmaq--World view
  Mi'kmaq--Fishing rights
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Indigenous peoples--Canada.
  
• Description:317 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
  
• 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'kmaq 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.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781772060539 (paperback)
  1772060534 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Introduction Narrating Mi'kmaw treaties: Linking the past to the future / Marie Battiste
  Negotiating for life and survival / Stephen J. Augustine
  My tribe, my heirs and their heirs forever : living Mi'kmaw treaties / Pamela Palmater
  Treaty and Mi'gmewey / Fred Metallic
  Mi'kmaw relations / Patrick J. Augustine
  Treaty denied : the 1928 trial of Grand Chief Gabriel Sylliboy / Jaime Battiste
  Memories of an ex-Indian Agent / Stuart Killen
  Alexander Denny and the treaty imperative / James [Sa'kej] Youngblood Henderson
  The personality of a nation / Russel Barsh
  Treaty advocacy and treaty imperative through Mi'kmaw leadership : remembering with Joe B. Marshall / Jaime Battiste
  Beyond cultural differences : interpreting a treaty between the Mi'kmaq and British at Belcher's Farm, 1761 / Natasha Simon
  Racism and treaty denied / Daniel N. Paul
  Litigating Section 35 Aboriginal and treaty rights in Nova Scotia / Douglas E. Brown
  Born to fish / Kerry Prosper
  Tables, talks and treaties / Victor Carter-Julian
  Becoming a language warrior / Naiomi Metallic
  Kina'matnewey education : how our ancestors imagined our success / Eleanor Tu'ti Bernard
  Resilience and resolution : Mi'kmaw education and the treaty implementation / Marie Battiste
  Appendix 1: Declaration of Aboriginal Rights
  Appendix 2: Archival Research, treatires, 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).