Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
The petition of Robert McKay and other inhabitants of the County of Pictou praying that a lot of land may be granted to the Mi'kmaq and other relief extended to them.
Date: 1842
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Indian Affairs Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 3 number 75
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?