NATIVE HISTORY

The information for this story was taken from the following sources: Internet sites (Note: neither site was accessible on March 1, 2003)
http://dickshovel.netgate.netlmic.html, by Lee Sultzman;
http://fox.nstn.ca/~mtsack/history.html, by Michael Sack; and Someone Before Us - Our Maritime Indians by George Frederick Clarke.

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New Brunswick
English
Indians
North America
Debert
Quaco Head
scientists
Algonkian
John Cabot
Spanish
Roman Catholics
Acadia
successful
New Scotland
Mohawk
treaty
bounty
deport

attention
French
India
Siberia
Maritimes
Kingsclear
Mi'kmaq
Quebec
Europeans
Jacques Cartier
Rebels
luxury
Abenaki
Grand Pre
population
smallpox
scalps
heritage

settlements
explorers
First Nations
Russia
Dartmouth
Hogan-Mullin
ancestors
Newfoundland
Vikings
British
wilderness
warriors
rivalry
generous
government
deliberately
prisoners

sharpened
occupied
Alaska
Amherst Shore
Micmac
Souris
Yarmouth
allies
Basque
Irish
Port Royal
advantage
Carolinas
Bay of Fundy
firearms
infected
threatening

American Revolution
St. Lawrence Valley

Native arrowhead
Annapolis Basin

Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Sir William Alexander


Drawing of a feather and a Native arrowheadBETWEEN TWO WORLDS

In the early 1900's, two men were walking by a lake in New Brunswick. Something lying on the ground caught one man's attention. He stopped and picked it up. It was a Native arrowhead. As he turned the piece of sharpened stone over in his hands, he began to realize what it meant, finding it there in the mud. He looked up at his friend. His voice was filled with wonder as he whispered, "Someone has been here before us!"(4)

4 George Frederick Clarke, Someone Before Us - Our Maritime Indians( Fredericton: Unipress, 1968) 13.

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