Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
A list of the head of the families belonging to the Mi'kmaq tribe of Amquaret which is hunting between Cornwallis on the Annapolis Road and the tribe of Nocout which is hunting on the Kennetcook River in Newport Township
Date: 1763
Retrieval no.: Isaac Deschamps Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 258 item 8 – pages 20-21
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- 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?