Madawaska Maliseet First Nation or St. Basile 10 bands is one of six Wolastoqiyik or Maliseet Nations in Saint John River in Canada. The Madawaska Maliseet First Nation is located in Northern New Brunswick, a few kilometers from Edmundston, and has a membership of 350 people. Approximately 114 MMFN members live in St. Petersburg. Basile no. 10 backup. This reserve is located 1.6 km east of Edmundston in the northwest region of New Brunswick. They are part of the Saint John River Valley Tribal Council. Family names include Bernard, Simon, Francis and Wallace.
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Malisees also Malecite , MalÃÆ' Â © quoting or ÃÆ' â € ° tchemins , their names for themselves, or autonym is Wolastoqiyik. Wolastoq means "Beautiful River" refers to the Saint John River. Wolastoqiyik means "Orang Sungai Indah," in Maliseet. (2007, LeSourd & 17) Their traditional land was expanded along the Wolastoq/Saint John River in New Brunswick and Maine, and was once extended as far as St. Lawrence. They are Algonkian (Algonquian) speakers. Their land and resources are confined in the east by traditional Mi'kmaq land and in the west by Passamaquoddy (or Peskotomuhkati ) and Penobscot countries. At the time of the European meeting, Maliseet (Wolastoqiyik) lived in walled villages and practiced horticulture (corn, beans, pumpkin and tobacco) In addition to growing their crops from fishing, hunting and gathering fruit, fruit, nuts and natural products.
Since ancient times, the MMFN reserve location is an important camping and meeting place for the Maliseet people during seasonal migration. In the mid-1700s one of the largest Maliseet villages had been established in Madawaska, declining at the turn of the 19th century. A large settler community was formed in Madawaska in the early 1800s that began with the relocation of the Dormitory people of the lower Saint John River in 1785. The French named the area Petit-Sault (Waterfall Small) refers to a waterfall located where the Madawaska River merges with the Saint John River.
By the end of the 1880s, the Canadian Pacific Railway, taking over three spare plots of land, with a total of nearly 13 hectares that cut MMFN, for the construction of the railway runs from Woodstock to Edmundston. (AANDC 2008)
After leaving this section of land for railway purposes around 1971, CP rail entered into an agreement with the Fraser Papers Inc. pulp mill. (now Twin Rivers), the largest pulp mill in the area, to run the above ground pipelines to mine into the tailings pool in the CP easement. (AANDC 2008).
"People can not go from the south to the north side of the pipe because you know, it's on the ground... it's made of wood, 4 feet tall."
When it is abandoned, MMFN makes a claim to get their land back. Land claim is part of St. Basile no. 10 reserves, of which about 50 percent of the 228 members of the First Nation Madawaska Maliseet live. This reserve is located 1.6 km east of Edmundston in the northwest region of New Brunswick. Non-Natives, whose land was also taken over for railways, returned their land to them.
"The Madawaska Maliseet First Nation accused the Canadian Government of failing to protect and defend its interests in reserves when the Canadian Pacific Railway stopped using land for train purposes." (AANDC 2008).
The factory is paired with the Fraser paper mill directly across the Saint John River in Madawaska, Maine, where the liquefied pulp is distributed - the only such installation anywhere along the Canadian-US border.
Joanna Bernard, Head of the First Madawaska Maliseet Nation, managed to negotiate land claims on Canadian Pacific Will Rights which included $ 5.7 million in compensation and re-instatement of questionable reserves. (AANDC 2008). "This settlement is linked to the use of three parcels of land reserves, which are almost 13 acres, used by the Canadian Pacific Railway for the construction of a rail section that runs from Woodstock to Edmundston in the late 1800s After the abandonment of this section, the land for railway purposes around the year 1971, the land was later used by Fraser Papers Inc. for the pipeline. Madawaska Maliseet First Nation alleged that the Canadian Government failed to protect and defend its interests in reserves when the Canadian Pacific Railway ceased to use the land for rail purposes. "(AANDC 2008).
In 2012 Madawaska Maliseet First Nation also "negotiated an agreement with Twin Rivers, the new owner of Fraser Papers, allowing the company to continue operating the pipeline on reserves." (AANDC 2012).
"We have signed the permit and let the pipeline continue to exist... now underground... no longer on the ground... so that relationship continues and we try and make it into a sustainable positive relationship." "The Trans Canada Highway divides our First Nation and since we have a sloping path now, we are really able to develop the other side of the highway for commercial rentals and our first anchor tenants will be... a truck stop truck." (AANDC 2012 ).
Premier David Alward announced on New Brunswick Day, 2013, that Chief Joanna Bernard is one of ten people inducted into the Order of New Brunswick. Chief Bernard is recognized "for his tireless efforts to ensure the welfare and economic prosperity of his community as well as from all First Nations communities in the province."
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Famous people
See also
- List of communities in New Brunswick
- First Country in New Brunswick
External links
- Madawaska Maliseet First Nation website
- Maliseet language and cultural links
- Mi'kmaq-Maliseet Institute - University of New Brunswick
- Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal
- Ã, Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Maliseet Indians". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
References
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