We Were Not the Savages: A Micmac Perspective on the Collision of European and Aboriginal Civilizations

Politics & Social Sciences

Paul, Daniel N.

Social Sciences

Nimbus Pub Ltd

The result of four years of rewriting, revising, and updating, this new edition includes reams of shocking new data about the confrontation between the Mi'kmaq and European civilizations. This re-examination of original historical records casts doubts on early military and political figures now honored as heroes and questions who the savages really were.

We Were Not the Savages: A Mi'kmaq Perspective on the Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations New Twenty-First Century Edition

History

Americas

Fernwood Publishing Co., Ltd.

This fully updated third edition of a vital text on the history of indigenous peoples comes from the thorough research of a First Nations descendent. By turns revealing and deeply unsettling, the book details the brutal treatment and complete displacement of the Mi’kmaq civilization at the hands of European settlers. The author’s ongoing research casts doubt on the recorded tales of Canadian colonization and reveals that the mistreatment of First Nations peoples is not confined to the past.

We Were Not the Savages: First Nations History ? Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations

Fernwood Publishing

The title of this book We Were Not the Savages speaks to the truth of what happened when Europeans invaded Mi’kmaw lands in the 17th century. Prior to the European invasion the Mi’kmaq lived healthy lives and for thousands of years had lived in harmony with nature in the land they called Mi’kma’ki. This book sets the record straight. When the Europeans arrived they were welcomed and sustained by the Mi’kmaq. Over the next three centuries their language, their culture, their way of life were systematically ravaged by the newcomers to whom they had extended human kindness. The murderous savagery of British scalp proclamations, starvation, malnutrition and Canada’s Indian residential and day schools all but wiped out the Mi’kmaq. Yet the Mi’kmaq survived and today stand defending the land, the water and nature’s bounty from the European way of life, which threatens the natural world we live in and need to survive.\nSince the first edition was published in 1993, Daniel Paul’s ongoing research confronts the mainstream record of Canadian settler colonialism and reveals that the mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples is not confined to the past. In this 4th edition the author shares his research, which catalogues not only the historical tragedy but the ongoing attempts to silence the Mi’kmaq and other Indigenous Peoples. Paul’s work continues to give the Mi’kmaq a voice that must be heard.

We Were Not The Savages, First Nations History, 4th ed.: Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations

L'Histoire des Premières Nations: Ce n'était pas nous les sauvages (Mouton Noir Acadie) (French Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

Bouton D'Or Acadie

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