“Mixed-blood Sang-Mele Acadians identifying with their Indigenous roots a modern-day phenomenon? Yeah right. We’ve apparently been “Raceshifting” for at least 271 years!” 
Governor of Nova Scotia, Edward Cornwallis expressed concern about the "inhabitants" who were Sang-Mele Acadians, December 07, 1749 letter that he wrote at Halifax, Nova Scotia to the “Board of Trade.”
"I am thoroughly convinced we shall not be able to support the just claims we have nor answer the expectations your lordships had when they sent me here, without an additional force."
"It was impossible to gather intelligence from these parts inhabited by the Kings subjects such was the behavior of those people."
"They can easily disguise themselves, Many of them are of Indian Blood and not unlike them."
Transcripts of the Colonial Office Records - Nova Scotia.
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