Stone eel weirs still existing at Kejimkujik date from this period
2000 bce
Idle No More launched
2012
1400 - 1650 in Europe
Same gender sex criminalized
1350 - 1538
Witch trials
1450
Abortion criminalized
1475
Jews expelled from Spain
1492
Private land ownership
1500
in modern "fee simple" form
Chattel slavery
1526
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Copernicus)
1543
Concept of "white people"
1600
Emergence of "nation-state"
1600
Modern borders
1600
Women pushed out of guilds
1600
Modern prisons
1601
Centralized police forces
1667
Principia (Newton)
1687
Eras
Mi'kmaw History
11000 bce - present
European Colonies in North America
1604 - present
Existence of Canada
1867 - present
Colonialism
Chief Membertou greets Champlain
1604
Gov Cornwallis orders militia and civilians to "destroy" all Mi'kmaq
1749
British from Massachusetts are moved to former Acadian farms
1760 - 1785
Hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering are severely curtailed by "civilian shield" of Planter farms. Animal populations are reduced by lack of access to forage and migration routes. Traditional economy collapses within a generation.
Peace and Friendship Treaty (most recent)
1761
First colonial schools for Mi'kmaw children
1789
Created to respond to economic collapse caused by enclosure of land
Traditional ceremonies banned
1885 - 1951
Indigenous people receive Canadian citizenship
1956
Indigenous people receive right to vote
1960
American Indian Movement (AIM) begins
1968
UN finds Indian Act in violation of international law
1981
Treaty and Aboriginal Rights recognized by Supreme Court (Simon vs. the Queen)
1985
Also 1990 (R vs. Sparrow), 1997 (Delgamuukw), 1998 (Mitchell), 1999 (Marshall)
Mi'kmaw traditional marriages first recognized by NS
