Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Documents furnished to Howe upon appointment as Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Includes an abstract of responses from several counties to a circular by the Provincial Secretary wishing to know the numbers and conditions of the Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1835
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 17-25
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?