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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 09:53:46 -0500
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cape Breton forgiveness feast
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Cape Breton municipality to apologize to Mi'kmaqs
from Halifax Daily News 3/20/99
SYDNEY - Residents of Nova Scotia's third-largest Mi'kmaq
reserve will
receive an apology tomorrow from the municipality that
demanded its
removal 84 years ago.
Mayor David Muise of the Cape Breton Regional
Municipality will formally
apologize to the Membertou First Nation during a special
healing ceremony
the Mi'kmaq call wi'kapaltimk - a forgiveness feast.
Sydney council passed a resolution in February 1915,
requesting the federal
government remove natives living on a reserve within city
limits. The council
was abolished in 1995 with the formation of the regional
municipality.
Council said at the time the reservation had a damaging
and injurious effect
on adjacent properties and stymied development. There
were claims
Mi'kmaq habits and homes were filthy; they were unable to
assimilate with
white people and white people avoided them; and they were
addicted to
debauchery and destroyed the peace. - CP
"Let Us Consider The Human Brain As
A Very Complex Photographic Plate"
1957 G.H. Estabrooks, Creator
of the Manchurian Candidate
born New Brunswick
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