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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 (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 · English. 359 pages : 23 cm. 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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...
