There's nothing to prove it, but Mi'kmaw mercenary myth persists, say researchers
elementary school textbooks from the 1950s and 1960s included the so-called "mercenary myth" as fact, and Ivan J. White, a Mi'kmaw man from Flat Bay, recalls learning the colonized version of history even in the mid-1990s. Jerry Wetzel wrote his master's thesis about the Mi'kmaw mercenary myth in 1995 at Dalhousie University. He wrote his master's thesis about the Mi'kmaw mercenary myth in 1995 at Dalhousie University. White)Damage doneWetzel said the damage done by textbooks that taught the mercenary myth cannot be underestimated.
Source: CBC News June 21, 2021 19:33 UTC
