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New window opens with - Tracadie Spear Point/ Pointe de lance de Tracadie
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First Nations people (Maliseet, Mi�kmaq and Passamaquoddy) that live in Wabanahkik teach us that this continent was the first landmass to rise from the waters that once covered the Earth.

New window opens with - French Lake Petroglyph/ Pétroglyphe de French Lake
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Their creation stories, or histories, are an important source of knowledge about the past, as is the knowledge gained from geology and archaeology.

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Oral traditions show us that First Nations� ancestors knew about their environment and landscape, which they shared with giant animals that roamed the earth.

New window opens with - Kingsclear Spear Point/ Pointe de lance de Kingsclear
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Archaeology reveals to us over 11,000 years of First Nation history in what is now called New Brunswick.



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Click here to read the oral traditions of Koluskap and the Giant Beaver and How Koluskap Created Sugarloaf Mountain.



 
 
 
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