TOBIQUE INDIAND IN NEW BRUNSWICK

PRIOR TO CONTACT THE TOBIQUE OPERATED THROUGHOUT THE WATERSHED OF W'OTA'TOKIYOKOK WHICH CONSISTS OF VAST NETWORK OF RIVERS AND LAKES IN 54,000 SQ. KM. THESE NATIVES TRAVELED TO THE RIVERS AND LAKES AND LIVED ON THEIR SHORE. THEY GATHER ANIMALS AND PLANTS FOR NOURISHMENT. THESE PEOPLE HUNTED, FISHED, AND GATHERED ENDLESS PLANTS. THEY COLLECTED BERRIES, NUTS, MEDICINAL PLANTS AND FRUITS. THEY RESPECTED THEIR TERRITORIES.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS VISITED IN THE THE 1490'S. AN ENGLISH KING AND FRENCH CAME TO MAKE PROFITS BUT ALSO CONQUERED LANDS, THAT RESULTED IN WARS.

BY 1763 A PROCLAMATION GUARENTEED THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE THEIR LAND AND RESOURCES AND THE TITLES MUST BE PURCHASED OR AN AGREEMENT REACHED. THEY WERE CLOSELY CONNECTED TO A BIG SPIDER WEB SPREAD OVER THEIR HOMELAND WITH 65 CAMPSITES AND 15 MAIN VILLAGES. THEY ALLOWED PEACEFUL NOMADIC NATIVE IMMIGRANTS USE AND OCCUPY PARCELS OF LAND THEY MADE ALLIES WITH THE FRENCH AS EARLY AS 1500 AND 1600.

THEN BOTH FRENCH AND ENGLISH PILAGED THE RESOURCES OF ALL THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. THEY DISREGARDED THE 1763 PROCLAMATION THAT GAVE THEM THE RIGHT TO TO THESE LANDS. FINALLY IN 1867 CANADA TOOK RESPONSIBILITY TO RESERVE THEIR LANDS UNDER THE BRITISH NATIVE AMERICAN ACT. THEY RECIEVED THE MANAGEMENT AND SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS THAT BELONGED TO THE PROVINCE AS WELL AS TIMBER AND WOODS THERE.

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