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Skicinaweekog

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Beginning in the days of the pre Loyalists, when New Brunswick was still part of Nova Scotia, it became a standard practice of government officials to help themselves, and their cronies, to the best lands in the province. As Brebner (1969) has put it: "Naturally the Halifax officials had their fingers in the pie from the beginning" In ten short years more than three and a half million acres of Mi'kmaq, (Wolastoqiyik) Maliseet, and (Peskotomuhkatiyik) Passamaquoddy lands had been granted away for a song; and a pattern of patronage and personal corruption had become entrenched. These grants also represented an enormous violation of imperial law, particularly the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which declared that no one could take possession of Indian Lands unless they had first been ceded or sold by Indian nations to the crown.

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Indigence

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aboriginal, indian, indigenous, issues, maliseet, native, new, poverty, siucide, social, tobique,

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