Mi'kmaw Treaties and Canadian Confederation on PEI

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Prince Edward Island entered Canadian Confederation 150 years ago — but a century before that, the island’s Indigenous Mi’kmaw Chiefs signed Treaties of Peace and Friendship with representatives of the British King. Historian Christopher Moore and Mi’kmaw legal scholar Cheryl Simon discuss how these separate, sometimes conflicting, legal traditions have affected everything from fishing rights to property ownership in Canada's smallest province.

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