The colonization of Mi'kmaw memory and history, 1794-1928 : the King v. Gabriel Sylliboy / William C. Wicken.

Examines why, how, and in what form, five Mi'kmaw men in 1928 remembered a treaty their ancestors had signed with the British Crown in 1752, and the prosecution of the Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaw people, Gabriel Sylliboy, who in 1927 was charged with trapping muskrats during closed season. He might h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wicken, William C., 1955-
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:	Sylliboy, Gabriel, > 1874-1963 > Trials, litigation, etc. Great Britain. > Treaties, etc. > Micmac Indians, > 1752 November 22. Micmac people > Colonization > Nova Scotia. Memory > Social aspects > Nova Scotia. Collective memory > Nova Scotia. Micmac people > Government policy > Nova Scotia > History. Micmac people > Nova Scotia > History.
Genre:	Trials, litigation, etc.
Physical Description:	x, 328 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

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