Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources

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Reserve on Ingraham's River. Visitted this Reserve on the 29th April.
Three Heads of Families
& These 3 have 10 children.
Christopher Paul
Lewis Paul & (one eyed) Francis Philip had built their wigwams here, and were commencing their spring preparation for the Fishery. These people consider themselves proprietors and reside here every Summer. Their land lies on both sides of Ingraham's River, a stream which rises about the neighbourhood of [Ardoise?], and draining a chain of lakes, falls into a long inlet at the head of Margaret's Bay. The general boundaries of the lot appeared to be unknown both to the Indians and their white neighbors - the former not knowing what to protect, and the latter trespassing without knowledge as often as from intention. An absurd idea seemed to prevail here, that the Indians had no right to cut or sell wood off their own land, and had not common rights with the whites in the River Fishery. The Indians complained also that the whites had turned cattle into their clearings - the whites that the Indian's fences were not lawful. On these points I endeavoured to set all parties right, stating to the Indians, in presence of their neighbors, what were their rights, and endeavouring to make them sensible of their duties also. I