Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial

Wicken, William C.

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“…This set off a reaction by other fishers, leading to confrontations that sometimes turned violent. Unfortunately, the federal Department of Fisheries was unprepared for such conflict and, instead of calming the situation and quelling the disturbance, even contributed to it (Coates, 2000;Wicken, 2004). Disturbingly, the recurrent confrontations and violence in 2020, initiated by non-Indigenous fishers opposed to Mi'kmaw treaty rights, reveal an ongoing failure by the federal government to develop and implement effective public policy to deal with the reality of Indigenous peoples' constitutional fishing rights in Atlantic Canada.…”

Section: Constitution Actmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Success in Canada

2022

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This book offers 22 in-depth case studies of public policies and programs of both provincial and federal governments in Canada that have been markedly successful. Using a common analytical framework, each case study describes the history and evolution of the policy, and assesses the extent of its programmatic, process, political, and long-term success. Combined, the cases provide a unique collection of stories about instances in which Canadian institutions and policy-makers actually worked as taxpayers would hope they always do. The volume provides a key and open access resource for teachers and researchers of both Canadian and comparative public policy.

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Section: Constitution Actmentioning

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“…The social and cultural organization that developed in tandem with the region's resource base emphasized mutual assistance. Mi'kmaw economic activities were organized on a community or settlement basis (Wicken, 2002). People lived in extended family groups and community leaders allocated hunting territories and resources (Wien, 1986).…”

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“…What we now call social assistance has also been called different things historically. In the early years of contact with settlers in Nova Scotia, for example, in the context of Treaties of Peace and Friendship, assistance was part of a diplomatic exchange relationship and took the form of presents or gifts (Wicken, 2002). Subsequently, terms such as charity, relief, rations, and welfare were used as the relationship between the Mi'kmaq and European colonists changed.…”

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Historical Roots of Social Assistance: An Inadequate Response to the Colonial Destruction of Mi’kmaw Livelihood in Nova Scotia

Cullen

Castleden

Wien

2021

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Social assistance and related programs are an important part of life in the 13 Mi’kmaq communities of Nova Scotia. Given the substantive importance of social assistance and related programs in Mi’kmaq communities, it is surprising how little research has been conducted on the subject. This research aims to understand the origins of economic dependence and the related emergence of social assistance among the Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia. We identify key historical periods and processes that have shaped the current policy landscape. A defining characteristic of social policy on reserve has been the fact that First Nations themselves have had very little say in how programs such as social assistance are designed and delivered. There is hope that a more self-determined and holistic approach may emerge.

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“…This legal indeterminacy has in the twenty-first century become the source of contested land rights. Oral tradition suggests that the Mi'kmaq understood that they were granting something akin to usufruct rights, but not conferring to the British Crown unilateral rights to grant or revoke either rights of use or title (Wicken, 2002). Land-grant surveys and maps were the most fundamental way in which cartography was employed to 'make real' one set of claims in ongoing contestation over social space.…”

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Mapping as Making Space: The Case of a Nature–Culture Hybrid

Bantjes¹

2018

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The once-settled 'wilderness' region that is the subject of this paper is marked by historic layers of physical inscription and erasure -a nature-culture hybrid that offers a readable surface with temporal depth. In this paper I discuss the mapping of these spatial surfaces as an interpretive and constructive practice. In the process of searching for longabandoned farms in a designated 'wilderness' landscape, my collaborators and I were reading topography and vegetation, aerial photos and archival documents as though all were obscure texts which confronted us with silences, anomalies and uncertainties. In writing up this discursive work in the form of an online GIS map hyperlinked to a web of texts and documentary images, I argue that we were both recording and constituting the layers of meaning that make the landscape. I am interested in the subtle power dynamic of such map-making. We were re-reading what the state has designated as 'wilderness' or 'nature' as, instead, non-nature -a cultural artefact. Yet I am sensible of the tension between my collaborators, for whom the map articulates ancestral claims to the landscape, and myself, happy to see the state protect, under the guise of 'wilderness', what I see as a nature-culture hybrid.

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Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial

Cited by 25 publications

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Policy Success in Canada

Policy Success in Canada

Historical Roots of Social Assistance: An Inadequate Response to the Colonial Destruction of Mi’kmaw Livelihood in Nova Scotia

Mapping as Making Space: The Case of a Nature–Culture Hybrid

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