by Daniel N. Paul, CM, ONS, Mi’kmaw Elder & Historian
October 2, 2019, will be the 270th anniversary of the time when the British military governemnt offered a bounty for the scalps of the Mi’kmaq. The following is a column I had published in the Halifax Herald in 1995 exposing the barbarity.
June 16, 1995 – Halifax Herald
Governor Edward
Cornwallis: you be the judge
By Vernon Gloade
When giving the convocation address to a September 27, 1989, meeting of the Atlantic First Nations Chiefs in Dartmouth, I used the occasion to break the silence that has prevailed in Canadian historical circles and society about the genocide suffered by the Mi’kmaq at the hands of the British. Since then ...
