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
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[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
[Dispatch discusses a peace and friendship treaty made with Indigenous tribes of Saint John River, Richibucto and Passamaquoddy, with particular emphasis on the 'truckhouse' provision related to a trade relationship with these tribes]
1760
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes include an order granting three small islands on St. John's Island (Prince Edward Island) to James Montgomery, Lord Advocate of Scotland]
1773
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Dispatch provides instructions for the governance of Nova Scotia - which at this time included St. John's Island - including 'measures to be observed in respect to the Indians, and the regulation of our commerce with them']
1764
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Representation supporting a memorial from Archibald Montgomery requesting 20,000-acre grant of land in Nova Scotia, stipulating that the lands should not already be 'possessed or claimed by the Indians')
1764
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[List of 'Presents to the Indians' who had assembled into a 'large body' during the surveying of the coasts of Nova Scotia]
1765
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Dispatch notes that the 'Indians of this Province have lately assembled from all parts to Place in the bay of Vert to meet a French Priest for the Celebration of Marriages and baptisms Amongst them, and to receive Absolution']
1765
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes reference Samuel Holland's survey plan and account of St. John's Island and order that a representation be sent to the Privy Council regarding Holland's plan and papers]
1766
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Petitioners request 'temporary grants' for fishery purposes in Cape Breton]
1766
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Dispatch refers to promises made in 1759 and 1760 'to the Indians, respecting Popish priests' providing them with assurances of free exercise of their religion in order to maintain peaceful relations - and discusses the current necessity of sending a priest for the same purpose]
1766
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Representation proposes instructions for granting lands in Nova Scotia, with the stipulation that the lands should not already be 'possessed or claimed by the Indians']
1767
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes regarding 'several applications for grants of land in the Island of St. John']
1767
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes refer to the memorial of James Montgomery, Lord Advocate of Scotland, requesting a grant of 'three small islands' on St. John's Island (Prince Edward Island)]
1771
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes refer to a petition of Captain George Fead requesting a grant for Panmure Island on St. John's Island (Prince Edward Island)]
1772
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
Title
Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
Contributors
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.