Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive

Tku Atlasma'lit (The wave gives me comfort or rest) 

L’nuey, the Mi’kmaw rights organization for Epekwitk/Prince Edward Island, has created this archive of textual documents to help address gaps in the historiography of Epekwitnewaq Mi’kmaq. This collection includes documents from a number of cultural repositories, accumulated over the course of several years and multiple rights-based research projects. The Collection includes a wide variety of documents pertaining to the history of Epekwitnewaq Mi’kmaq, including government documents such as proclamations, reports, and official correspondence; community texts such as petitions and appeals; private correspondence and writings; archival published material like pamphlets and newspaper accounts, and more. 
Visit the Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive page for more information about this project. 

Please note: In some instances, the quality of the scanned document is less than ideal due to the quality of the original. 

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[Dispatch suggests looking into the 'nature of the pretentions of the Indians for any part of the lands within this province' and explains the rationale for the May 4, 1762 Proclamation 'injoining all persons against any molestation of the Indians in their claims']
1762
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minute expressing the Lords' disapproval of Nova Scotia Acting Governor Jonathan Belcher's proclamation recognizing the 'Indians…claim… to lands in the Province of Acadia,' especially the coasts which excluded settlers from 'settling or carrying on the fishery']
1762
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes record an order rejecting a proposal to provide land grants in St. John's Island to 'foreign Protestants' looking to settle there]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
Remarks on the Indian Commerce carried on by the Government of Nova Scotia in the year 1760, 1761 & part of 1762 [enclosed with Belcher's July 8, 1763 dispatch]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Author encloses accounts related to expenditures from the provincial treasury (see Belcher's July 1763 brief entitled 'Remarks on the Indian Commerce')]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes reference a memorial requesting 'a certain part of the Island of St. John… to make a settlement and carry on a fishery there']
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Dispatch instructs recipient to arrange for a survey of St. John's Island in order to ascertain 'the nature of the soil the rivers and harbours' and to 'protect all temporary establishments for carrying on the Fishery']
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes reference an application for grant of a part of St. John's Island]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes reference an application for a land grant on St. John's Island]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Dispatch notes that the Mi'kmaq of St. John's Island had requested that the government provide them with a Catholic priest and that some Mi'kmaq in Acadia had travelled to the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon for supplies]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes reference a memorial for a land grant on St. John's Island]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes record an order related to a petition from military officers on St. John's Island 'for a grant of land on which they are settled' and a memorial from the Earl of Egmont requesting 'a grant of the whole Island of St. John']
1764
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Dispatch suggests that a few French missionaries be employed to influence the Indigenous population 'for public good']
1761
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Dispatch discusses Nova Scotia's statutory measure for 'carrying on the Indian trade']
1761
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Dispatch provides text and account of peace and friendship treaties signed with chiefs of Mi'kmaq tribes from Shediac, Miramichi, Pokemouche and Cape Breton]
1761
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
Title
Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
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Collector: L'nuey
Abstract

Tku Atlasma'lit (The wave gives me comfort or rest) 

L’nuey, the Mi’kmaw rights organization for Epekwitk/Prince Edward Island, has created this archive of textual documents to help address gaps in the historiography of Epekwitnewaq Mi’kmaq. This collection includes documents from a number of cultural repositories, accumulated over the course of several years and multiple rights-based research projects. The Collection includes a wide variety of documents pertaining to the history of Epekwitnewaq Mi’kmaq, including government documents such as proclamations, reports, and official correspondence; community texts such as petitions and appeals; private correspondence and writings; archival published material like pamphlets and newspaper accounts, and more. 
Visit the Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive page for more information about this project. 

Please note: In some instances, the quality of the scanned document is less than ideal due to the quality of the original.