In 1886 a group of Mi'kmaq came to St. George's Bay from Grand Codroy Valley, Newfoundland Documents were written up by Bishop Neil McNeil . People were lured by work.
Moses Muise was blacksmith and helped build the RC. Church in St George's.
They were granted 100 acres of land that already had been assigned by the Queen of England in a treaty that both provincial and federal Government now don't recognize .
Settlement was at the height of Steel Mountain Road , now Muse's Lane. It was the first known Mi'kmaq Village on the Island of Newfoundland.
They are still 94 % Mi'kmaq living in this area.
My Great-Great -Grandfather and his wife, Lucy , were some of the last to speak the Mi'kmaq language.
Every year a group of Mui's would sail over the NS to Chappell Island for St. Ann's gathering held there.
Lucy was the last women to sing Mi'kmaq songs in the Church in St. George's and after a new Bishop came to St. George's she was no longer allowed to sing in Mi'kmaq, only in Latin.
Our people had lived off the land and planted their own crops. All nine families reared live stock and very little we bought to stores.
On Muise Lane their were several stores ,but most time they traded among the nine families of old Mose's Mui's.
They lived a Mi'kmaq traditional way of hunting, guiding, fishing , and providing for the long winter months.
Those days are long gone but we most remember the days as we were treated as outcasts from the rest of St. George's by the real people that built the foundation of this neck of the woods..
Pikto'l Sa'ke'j Mui's
Victor James Mui
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