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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[Letter written from Fort Amherst referring to Indigenous population of Ile Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island)]
1758
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Letter discusses supplies and provisions to garrisons in Cape Breton and St. John's Island and refers to a blockhouse built 'as a safeguard against the Indians']
1759
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Letter refers to a shipwreck along the coast of Nova Scotia in which the survivors were saved 'from the fury of the Indians' by a some French inhabitants and a priest]
1759
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Minutes note that a peace treaty with chief of 'Tribe of Indians of Lehave' had been signed]
1761
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Proclamation protects areas of Nova Scotia described as the 'possessions of the said Indians, for the more special purpose of hunting, fowling and fishing']
1762
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Transcription of proclamation issued by Jonathan Belcher, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of Nova Scotia 'or Acadia']
1762
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[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
[Refers to protections provided by Lieutenant Governor Belcher's proclamation of Mi'kmaq claims to the sea coasts as 'unjust']
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
Extract from the Report on Indian Affairs by the Commissioners Rawson W. Rawson, John Davidson and William Hepburn dated 22nd January 1844 [re: transcription of Royal Proclamation of 1763]
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
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Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
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Collector: L'nuey
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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.