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Link to: CBC News. (2023, June 22). "Mi’kmaw, Acadian histories of Chignecto Isthmus told in new exhibit: Revealing Chignecto at Pier 21 has been prepared by a team from Parks Canada, and Mi'kmaq groups in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick." Video: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2231461955912
Notes: Exhibit combines oral history, archeology, and landscape studies. Available in English, French and Mi'kmaw languages The attached letter is shared with the permission of Keith Henry, President BC Metis Federation and includes the following quotation from Chief Justice Dickson, R v. Keegstra:
“Hatred is predicated on destruction, and hatred against identifiable groups therefore thrives on insensitivity, bigotry and destruction of both the target group and of the values of our society. Hatred in this sense is a most extreme emotion that belies reason; an emotion that, if exercised against members of an identifiable group, implies that those individuals are to be despised, scorned, denied respect and made subject to ill-treatment on the basis of group affiliation."  AAMS AGM To attend the AGM using Zoom, see: AGM Zoom Meeting Details https://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/association-des-acadiens-metis-souriquois-notice-of-annual-general-meeting-saturday-24-june-2023-1200-noon-to-400-pm-adt Tentative Agenda 12:00 pm Doors Open 12:30 pm Meet & Greet / Play videos 1:00 pm Opening Prayer & Short Ceremony (smudge) AAMS Annual General Business Meeting At the meeting, regular members will be asked to:
3-4:00 pm BBQ  "Caraquette, as I have elsewhere observed, is rather an old settlement, the cause, perhaps, why its inhabitants particularly the women, exhibit more of the colour and features of the Micmac Indians, than is generally discernable in Acadians."  "This personal distinction, however, is also observable at Petit Roche, another French settlement farther up the Bay; and there is little doubt, that the peculiarity in both cases, is the result of the early settlers having intermarried with the savages."
Reference: Cooney, Robert. (Originally published 1832). A compendious history of the northern part of the province of New Brunswick and of the District of Gaspé in Lower Canada. Halifax: J. Howe. p. 184. https://archive.org/details/compendioushisto00coon/page/184/mode/2up |
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