O Canada!
Your homes on Mi’kmaw
land
True genocidal
drive
By all your
Queen’s command
With greedy
hearts
You watched us
die
Our strong
Nation divided and poor
All for money
and power, O Canada
We stand on
guard against thee
Our land is not
your commodity for fee
O Canada! We
stand on guard against thee
O Canada, our
Nation is still here;
O Canada! We
stand on guard against thee
O Canada! Our Mi’kmaw
Nation sovereign and free.
1725-26 – Peace and friendship
treaties signed with Mi’kmaw to stop hostilities on all sides and protect
hunting, fishing, fowling;
1752 – Treaty with
Mi’kmaw confirming hunting and fishing rights;
1756 – Proclamation
offering bounty for Mi’kmaw scalps;
1760-61 – Treaty with
Mi’kmaw protecting hunting, fishing and trading rights (no surrender of land or
sovereignty);
1971 – Donald Marshall
Jr (Mi’kmaw) wrongly convicted of murder, Halifax, NS;
1981 – Police
assault and arrest Mi’kmaw for exercising fishing rights in Restigouche, QC;
1999-01 – RCMP & DFO
ram fishing boats of Mi’kmaw for exercising court-proven treaty rights in Esgenoopetij,
NB;
2013 – Army of RCMP assault
and arrest peaceful Mi’kmaw protecting lands from hydro-fracking in Elsipogtog,
NB;
2013 – RCMP flank
hydro-fracking trucks to protect them against peaceful Mi’kmaw land protectors
in Elsipogtog, NB;
2014?
