Jackie Vautour
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John L. Vautour was a Canadian fisherman, born in Claire-Fontaine, New Brunswick, best known for his fight against the expropriation of 250 families in the early 1970s to create Kouchibouguac National
Jackie Vautour with his wife Yvonne Vautour in 2008
Sign marking the property claimed by Jackie Vautour at Kouchibouguac National Park, 2010
Mi'kmaq
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The Mi'kmaq are an Indigenous group of people of the Northeastern Woodlands, native to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoun
Jackie Vautour
…His defense is based on the assumption that the inhabitants of the communities liquidated to form Kouchibouguac are Métis (i.e., they descend from both Mi'kmaq and early European settlers), and therefore his clients have an aboriginal right to harvest clams, according to the Canadian constitution. However the…
Chief Gabriel Sylliboy – first to fight for Treaty Rights in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1929
The Holy Mary Rosary prayer in Mi'kmaq hieroglyphics by the Luxembourg missionary Christian Kauder, 1866
Miꞌkmaq Women Selling Baskets, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by Mary R. McKie c. 1845
Monument to the Treaty of 1752, Shubenacadie First Nation, Nova Scotia