Indigenous Legal Traditions and Histories of International and Transnational Law in the Pre-Confederation Maritime Provinces /

The council fire was the central symbol of Wabanaki allies, given the frequent meetings of 19 the alliance structure, and the Mohawk were the the confederacy in that period. [...] A year later, in protectors of the Caughnawaga fire.14 These legal the Treaty of Watertown, both the Wolastoqiyik protocols and procedures were fundamental to the and the Mi’kmaq declared their support for the ongoing functioning of the alliance, analogous, for United States. [...] That year, delegates from the Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot met under the formal banner of the confederacy for the first time in a century.23 A meeting of the confederacy was hosted by the Wolastokiyik in Inter-European Law 2013 in their traditional territory and, in 2015, the Wabanaki Confederacy Conference was held Inter-European transnational law was conceived in Vermont.24 In the late n [...] The first Annapolis Royal, the immediate impact of the such treaty to impact the Maritime provinces capture of the fort and the formal cession at Utrecht was the Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye, signed in was minimal.41 Events unfolding as they did over the 1632, under which the colony of Acadia, along next half-century, however, the cession of Acadia at with Quebec and Cape Breton, were “returned” U [...] This idea of gift exchange, feasting was made possible by a shared set of assumptions and ceremony had long been the code of conduct regarding the rights of the Indigenous peoples of in maintaining peaceful relationships with the 56 the region and the superiority of European law.