Early Relations Between Mi’kmaw/French/British

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Across
  1. 2. The French faced competition at this time from other Europeans, including the ____ .
  2. 4. The French came into conflict with the _____ and began to encourage Mi’kmaw to settle in Newfoundland.
  3. 6. First recorded contact in 1497 with John ______, who took three Mi’kmaw people to England; they never returned!
  4. 7. First European contact may have been as early as 11th Century with _____.
  5. 8. War continued off and on until 1713 when the _____ of Utrecht gave control of NS and NFLD to the British although Cape Breton remained in French hands.
  6. 11. By 1610 ____ missionaries began converting Mi’kmaw to Christianity.
  7. 12. This French explorer navigated Newfoundland and the St Lawrence river between 1534-1542.
Down
  1. 1. These _______ devastated the Mi’kmaw and by 1620 only 4000 Mi’kmaw were still living (out of 20 000).
  2. 3. By 1720 the French were hard at work building the Fortress of _______ and despite a treaty signed between the Mi’kmaw, Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet), Abenaki, and the British war continued.
  3. 5. The fierce Mi’kmaw _________ protected this trade with the help of metal weapons acquired through trade with Europeans.
  4. 9. The Mi’kmaw began to ______ with First Nations in the interior to get furs to trade with the French.
  5. 10. By 1607 fur trade rivalries caused an 8 year war to break out between the Mi’kmaq and the Penobscot of ____.