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News and Reflections:  "Metis in Minnesota" -- November 17, 2023

11/17/2023

 
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"Mixed blood Fur trader 1870." Unknown Author. Public Domain
Link to: Vaughan, M. (2023, May 19). "Metis in Minnesota: In the Minnesota region during the eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, métis, or mixed-ancestry, people often acted as bridges between white and Native American communities." MNOPEDIA. https://www.mnopedia.org/group/m-tis-minnesota

News and Reflections: "Dugout Canoes, the ‘Pickup Trucks’ of Their Day, Go Digital in Wisconsin." -- November 12, 2023

11/12/2023

 
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Link to: Cosier, S. (2023, November 6). "Dugout Canoes, the ‘Pickup Trucks’ of Their Day, Go Digital in Wisconsin: For millennia, people used dugouts for transport and trade. Now, an ambitious project is preserving the canoes virtually and revealing new details." Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wisconsin-dugout-canoe-archaeology?mc_cid=460903a6e7&mc_eid=3880d5eb58

News and Reflections: French missionary Father Sigogne and his service to Mi'kmaw and Acadian peoples of Southwest Nova Scotia from 1799 to 1844

11/2/2023

 
After fleeing the French Revolution and making his way first to England and then to Clare, Nova Scotia, Father Sigogne served the Mi'kmaw and the poorest of the poor Acadian peoples of the Cap-Sable and Baie Sainte-Marie parishes, which he founded, from 1799 to his death in 1844.

Through his application of "moral rigorism" upon the communities he served, his liberal use of the threat of excommunication as a means of discipline, his advocacy for the spiritual, educational and other temporal needs of Acadian and Mi'kmaw, and his staunch devotion to the communities he served until his death, for which Nova Scotia's provincial officials (if not always his parishioners) held him in high esteem, Father Sigogne left an indelible, and praiseworthy mark on the history of the area.
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The site of the “big church” is now the location of the parish cemetery. Notice the monument across the road from the church. This is a monument to Father Jean-Mandé Sigogne whose remains were buried in front of what was at that time known as College Sainte-Anne. This college, which is now known as University Sainte-Anne, was, at the time, run by the Eudiste Priests and the college Rector was also the Pastor of the parish. Date: [ca. 1830] Reference: Musée Sainte-Marie
As his personal correspondence attests, Father Sigogne was notably distressed about the level of contempt his parishioners had for their mixed-blood brethren, who were the offspring of intermarried Acadian and Mi'kmaw parents. 

As noted in his biography, Father Sigogne's attempts to address the problem within the community did not succeed, and later he would rely upon social mechanisms such as intermarriage and the passage of time, to lessen, if not eliminate altogether, this long-standing prejudice.
References:
  • Pothier, B. (1988). SIGOGNE, JEAN-MANDÉ. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 7. https://doi.org/November 2, 2023
  • (n.d.). Father Sigogne. Le Petit Bois. Retrieved November 2, 2023, from https://lepetitbois.ca/en/self-guided-walks/father-sigogne/
  • Boudreau, G. C. (n.d.). Father Sigogne and Nova Scotia’s Acadian Heritage. Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America. Retrieved November 2, 2023, from http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/article-424/Father_Sigogne_and_Nova_Scotia%E2%80%99s_Acadian_Heritage.html
Also link to: Association des Acadiens-Metis Souriquois blog site: https://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-ancient-place-names-close-to-home-baie-sainte-marie-clare-march-18-2023

News and Reflections: "Monsters" from the Past -- October 26, 2023

10/26/2023

 
"Monsters" from the Past:
"The story is far worse than you imagined !!!!"
October 26, 2023

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The Fultz House Museum, in Lower Sackville, has published an engaging brochure, "Captain John Gorham: Hero or Monster."  Here, we may read a summary of the vile and murderous exploits of Captain John Gorham and his band of Rangers.  As we read the brochure, we learn that In return for a generous bounty offered by the British Governor Shirley and later by Governor Cornwallis, Captain Gorham and his Rangers engaged in the collection of human scalps. The brutal practice of collecting scalps for pay, exploited in full by John Gorham and his Rangers, continued from approximately 1744 through the early 1750s, and targeted Mi'kmaq warriors, civilians, and anyone living in settlements and villages that "stood in their way." 

What happened under the command of Captain John Gorham and his Rangers was far worse, as contemporary research reveals.  Brian D. Carroll, in his 2012 article,  “Savages” in the Service of Empire: Native American Soldiers in Gorham's Rangers, 1744–1762," gives insight into Gorham's Rangers, a primarily Indian company, and its role in subduing a hostile Acadian and Mi'kmaq population using a variety of techniques comprising collection of scalps from Mi'kmaq warriors, civilians, and Acadian guerillas, crop burning, amphibious raids, surprise attacks, terror -- including the taking, killing or selling of captives - deception, impersonation "stealth and subterfuge."

Reference: Carroll, Brian D. (2012). "Savages” in the Service of Empire: Native American Soldiers in Gorham’s Rangers, 1744-1762." The New England Quarterly Vol. 85, No. 9. p. 407. https://archive.org/details/2012-09-us-the-new-england-quarterly-vol.-85-no.-9/mode/2up
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Articles in the Portland Press gives a local historian's point of view about Gorham's Rangers:
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References:
  • Humiston, F. (1968, January 4). "Boston Town to Thomas Town - 258: Cajuns Threat to British After Beausejour Victory." Portland Press Herald (Portland, Maine). Page 8. https://www.newspapers.com/image/848451808. Downloaded October 26, 2023

  • Humiston, F. (1968, January 16). "Boston Town to Thomas Town: British Decide Actions Must be Taken Against Acadians. Portland Press Herald (Portland, Maine) · Tue, Jan 16, 1968 · Page 7. https://www.newspapers.com/image/848527966 Downloaded on Oct 26, 2023

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News and Reflections: "Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant Governor Lawrence to Sir Thomas Robinson. Dated Halifax, June 28, 1755." -- October 13, 2023

10/13/2023

 
About the surrender of the French Fort at Beausejour
"... where the French had their principal Magazine for supplying the
French Inhabitants and Indians."
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The Western Flying Post; or, Sherborne and Yeovil Mercury (Sherborne, Dorset, England) · Mon, Aug 4, 1755 · Page 1 https://www.news papers.com/image/979344577 Downloaded on Oct 13, 2023 Copyright © 2023 News papers.com. All Rights Reserved.
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Link to: The Western Flying Post; or, Sherborne and Yeovil Mercury (Sherborne, Dorset, England) · Mon, Aug 4, 1755 · Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/979344577 Downloaded on Oct 13, 2023. Copyright © 2023 News papers.com. All Rights Reserved

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