By Anasophie Vallée is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter Back in 1725, there were treaties signed between Britain and the Mi’kmaq nation known as the Peace and Friendship treaties. These treaties allowed the British and the Mi’kmaq to live and work side by side, explained Keith Cormier, former western vice-chief of Qalipu First Nation and the provincial coordinator for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The treaties were later removed in the 1750s. However, the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia had been saying for years that the Ktaqmkuk district, which is Newfoundland, had renewed its treaty in 1763 off Codroy Island. “The federal government and the province have said, ‘You have no treaty, that there’s no proof that was ever signed.’ Well, in the summer, a young…
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