"The nature of Mi’kmaq society, which included sharing and free expression, was so advanced in the establishment of equitable human rights principles that greed and intolerance were all but unknown. Thus, the European concepts which separated people into a distinct hierarchy
based upon birth, colour, race, lineage, religion, profession, wealth, politics and other criteria would have seemed to them unbelievable. This absence of biases about the differences of others is one of the best indicators of how far advanced Mi'kmaq culture was in the
development of human relations."
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Tensions of empire- colonial cultures in a bourgeois world-Cooper, Frederick, 1947- Stoler, Ann Laura-1997 -- MNC does not hold a monopoly on the word Metis, it is an International phenomena. With many many different definitions.
Tensions of empire- colonial cultures in a bourgeois world-Cooper, Frederick, 1947- Stoler, Ann Laura-1997- how a person was labeled could determine that a certain category of persons could be killed or raped with impunity, but not others. It could open or close down the
Before we get to disingenuous Ms MONEO, "Nova Scotia had growth that was too good to be true: Thirty years ago, 225 Métis lived in the province, and by 2016, there were more than 23,000." -- First off 30 years ago was 1991, until the 1981 census, the only ethnicity recorded was
historically one sided. Only the applicants paternal ethnicity was to be recorded. Do you think maybe once they changed their recording processes and people could actually identify their Metis roots through their maternal ancestry, that had anything to do with growth change
digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewconten… -- I find this interesting Jarvis, you tell me that I am not allowed to claim my own Mi'kmaw family without going through the Mi'kmaw Nation. This article says there is no Mi'kmaw Nation (which I don't believe by the way) but in so saying, by what right do
think you have to make me claim my family through you? The ancestry I am citing is my own. Mathew Mius, Francois Mius and Joseph Mius. 2 of who are signatories to Peace and Friendship Treaties.
"Despite meeting all the elements of this onerous test, Mr. Bernard nonetheless lost. The reason? He could not prove that he descended from the particular sub-group of Mìgmaq who were in the Saint John area pre-contact (circa sixteen hundreds) and quit the area about a hundred
What a load of BS ... "Distribution of Métis Population in Manitoba. Printed in Jean H. Lagasse A Study of the population of Indian Ancestry Living in Manitoba undertaken by the Social and Economic Research Office under the Direction of Jean H. Lagasse. Winnipeg 1959."
Being a Social Justice Warrior - Ultra Spiritual Life episode 88 via @YouTube ---- hahahaha remind you of anyone .. 🤔😉
That one word "raceshifting" which is a completely fabricated word based on race which doesn't exist as we know it, lol It is a social construct, which on it's very basis is subject to "shift" ---- lmao, can't even make this shit up.. 😅
So no matter how much you try and say, my family is not Mi'kmaw Darryl, when they lived with the Tribe, signed treaties for the Mi'kmaw Nation, married within it, I totally beg to differ. My 8th Great Grandmother has had her name lost to history, that does not negate her presence