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One of the Mi'kmaq chiefs declared that "he now buried the hatchet on behalf of himself and his whole tribe, a token of their submission and of their having made peace." The Chief of the Cape Breton Mi'kmaq's declared, "As long as the Sun and the Moon shall endure, as long as the Earth on which I
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