| Andrea Bear Nicholas Chair in Native Studies, St. Thomas University , Fredericton , New Brunswick . Beginning in the days of the pre Loyalists, when New Brunswick was still part of Nova Scotia , it became a standard practice of government officials to help themselves, and their cronies, to the best lands in the province. As Brebner (1969) has put it: “Naturally the Halifax officials had their fingers in the pie from the beginning” In ten short years more than three and a half million acres of Mi’ kmaq, (Wolastoqiyik) Maliseet, and (Peskotomuhkati) Passamaquoddy lands had been granted away for a song; and a pattern of patronage and personal corruption had become entrenched. These grants also represented an enormous violation of imperial law, particularly the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which declared that no one could take possession of Indian Lands unless they had first been ceded or sold by Indian nations to the crown. MORE ... |
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| WOLASTOQEWIAK NEHGAH WABANUWOK "people of the good river and the people of the white light or dawn" "les gens du bon fleuve et les personnes de la lumière ou de l'aube blanche" |
| At Windsor Castle on September 10, 1621 King James signed a grant in favour of Sir William Alexander covering all of the lands "between our Colonies of New England and Newfoundland, to be known as New Scotland " (Nova Scotia in Latin), an area larger than Great Britain and France combined. On October 18, 1624 the King announced his intention of creating a new order of baronets to Scottish "knichts and gentlemen of cheife respect for ther birth, place, or fortounes ". James I died on March 27, 1625 but his heir, Charles I, lost no time in implementing his father’s plan. By the end of 1625, the first 22 Baronets of Nova Scotia were created and, as inducements to settlement of his new colony of Nova Scotia, Sir William offered tracts of land totalling 11,520 acres |
| We never ceded, sold or surrendered any of our traditional homelands! |
| International Aggression - A crime against peace, in international law, refers to the act of military invasion as a war crime, specifically referring to starting or waging war against the integrity, independence, or sovereignty of a territory or state, or else a military violation of relevant international treaties, agreements or legally binding assurances. |
| We never ceded, sold or surrendered any of our traditional homelands! |
