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We Were Not the Savages is the Native American history book written for me. Here is a native author who used the Europeans' own documents to prove their dastardly deeds and show that, when compared to the Mi'kmaq, the Europeans were the honorless savages.
“We Were Not the Savages is the Native American history book written for me. Here is a native author who used the Europeans’ own documents to prove their dastardly deeds and show that, when compared to the Mi’kmaq, the Europeans were the honorless savages.
We Were Not the Savages (1993 and later editions) is a history of the Mi'kmaq people during the period of European colonization written by Daniel N. Paul. It has been published in four editions.
May 9, 2019 · The result of four years of rewriting, revising, and updating, this new edition includes reams of shocking new data about the confrontation between the Mi'kmaq and European civilizations.
Apr 1, 2007 · This fully updated third edition of a vital text on the history of indigenous peoples comes from the thorough research of a First Nations descendent. By turns revealing and deeply unsettling, the book details the brutal treatment and complete displacement of the Mi’kmaq civilization at the hands of European settlers.
“We Were Not the Savages is the Native American history book written for me. Here is a native author who used the Europeans’ own documents to prove their dastardly deeds and show that, when compared to the Mi’kmaq, the Europeans were the honorless savages.
Since the first edition was published in 1993, Daniel Paul’s ongoing research confronts the mainstream record of Canadian settler colonialism and reveals that the mistreatment of Indigenous...
Jan 1, 1993 · Paul builds a compelling case that Mi’kmaq ‘were not the savages’, and in doing so challenges much of the Canadian claim to fair treatment of its indigenous peoples and British imperial claims to having been a force for civilisation, education and betterment.
This book sets the record straight. When the Europeans arrived they were welcomed and sustained by the Mi’kmaq. Over the next three centuries their language, their culture, their way of life were systematically ravaged by the newcomers to whom they had extended human kindness.
- Daniel N. Paul
It details a chronicle of a people’s inhumanity that has few, if any, equals in human history. When amassing the information that was needed to write about the English invasion of the territory of the Mi’kmaq, reams of information about the Tribe’s Amerindian allies also had to be digested.
