What problems does the Maliseet Indian tribe face today?
In Canada, natives and non-natives have many conflicts about Indian land rights. The Maliseet and Mi’kmaq people of New Brunswick have been at the center of this controversy. When the Maliseet and other Indian tribes signed treaties with the Canadian government, they gave up ownership of most of their original land. However, in exchange, the government agreed that the Maliseets would have special fishing, hunting, and logging rights. These special rights make white fishermen, hunters, and loggers very angry. They think it is unfair that they don’t have the same rights that the Maliseets do, even though the Maliseets legally paid the government for those rights. Some white people in New Brunswick got so angry that they destroyed Mi’kmaq and Maliseet fishing equipment and burned a sacred site. Eventually the situation calmed down, but there is still a lot of tension between the Maliseet Indians and their white neighbors in New Brunswick. Here’s an article about this situation that is wri
