Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Letter to Wiswall from James Kempt concerning a plan to "settle and civilize" part of a Mi'kmaq tribe- a proposal to gain possession of the land for a reservation and to inquire into its condition.
Date: 1825
Retrieval no.: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 979 file 8 number 2
Questions to Consider
- When do you think the document was written?
- Who do you think wrote the document?
- Why do you think the document was written
- Who do you think received the document?
- Who do you think this document was written for?
- What information do you think this document provides? What do you think it tells us about the past?
- How do you think the document reflects the attitudes and values of the time period in which it was written?
- What impact do you think the document had at the time it was written?
- Do you think those were different impacts for different people?