We Were Not the Savages : A Mi'kmaq Perspective on the Collision between European and Native American Civilizations

Table of Contents

• A Mikmaq Perspective on the Collision between European and Native American Civilizations 1
• New Twenty-First-Century Edition 1
• Daniel N. Paul 1
• Fernwood Publishing Halifax 1
• Contents 3
• List of Illustrations 4
• Dedication 5
• Acknowledgements 6
• Foreword 7
• Civilization Democracy and Government 9
• The Need for a Native American Historical Perspective 9
• National Identity 10
• The Horrors to Come 10
• Mikmaq and European Civilizations 11
• Mikmaq Government 15
• The Land of the Mikmaq 17
• Religion 19
• Morality and Customs 20
• Mikmaq Social Values and Economy 23
• Early European Descriptions of Mikmaq Character 36
• Trade and Commerce 42
• European Greed and the Mikmaq Resolve to Fight 44
• Mikmaq Decline 44
• European Greed 48
• European Settlement 53
• European Disrespect for Mother Earth 56
• The Mikmaq Resolve to Fight 59
• Persecution War Alliance and Terrorism 61
• Persecution 61
• War Amerindian versus Amerindian 65
• War England versus the Mikmaq 69
• Terrorism 75
• The Treaty of 1725 and Proclamations 79
• Treaties 80
• The Treaty of 1725 82
• Proclamations 90
• Flawed Peace and the Treaty of 1749 91
• More Bounties for Human Scalps and the Treaty of 1752 107
• Scalping Proclamation of 1749 107
• The Treaty of 1752 119
• The Futile Search for a Just Peace 1752-1761 124
• Lawrences Scalping Proclamation 145
• The 1760s Treaties 149
• Burying of the Hatchet Ceremony of 1761 and the Royal Proclamation of 1763 152
• Burying of the Hatchet Ceremony of 1761 152
• The Royal Proclamation of 1763 162
• Dispossession and the Imposition of Poverty 165
• The Imposition of Degrading Poverty 166
• Dispossessed and Landless 172
• The Edge of Extinction 181
• Confederation and the Indian Act 202
• Confederation 202
• The Indian Act 204
• The Guerin Decision 229
• Twentieth-Century Racism and Centralization 257
• Twentieth-Century Racism 257
• Education 258
• The Shubenacadie Indian Residential School 259
• Indian Day Schools 266
• The One Band Theory 267
• Centralization 269
• The Struggle For Freedom 291
• Notes 334
• Chapter 1 334
• Chapter 2 334
• Chapter 3 335
• Chapter 4 335
• Chapter 5 336
• Chapter 6 336
• Chapter 7 336
• Chapter 8 337
• Chapter 9 338
• Chapter 10 338
• Chapter 11 338
• Chapter 12 339
• Chapter 13 340
• Chapter 14 342
• Select Bibliography 344
• Primary Sources 344
• Secondary Sources 348
• Index 351
• About the Cover 358
• About the Author 359