Historical Scale Comparison: Mi'kmaki and the World

Europe, West Asia, North Africa

Foundation of Jericho

Approx. 8500 bce

Early campsites in Egypt

Approx. 8000 bce

Early campsites in Britain

Approx. 4000 bce

Abraham

Approx. 1800 bce

Jesus

6 bce - 30 ce

Muhammad

570 - 632

Present

present

Mi'kmaqi

Mi'kmaw village at Debert, NS

Approx. 8400 bce

Mikmaw campsites at Kejimkujik

3000 bce

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"

Approx. 1600

Emergence of "nation-state"

Approx. 1600

Modern borders

Approx. 1600

Women pushed out of guilds

Approx. 1600

Modern prisons

1601

Centralized police forces

1667

Principia (Newton)

1687

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

2001