A good reminder

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Dear Editor:

I have just read your blurb on the comic story of Dhaliwal searching for the holiest of grails in the Maritimes. The author mentioned that Mi'kmaq fishing rights come from the treaty and calls them "treaty rights." I beg to differ with your author. Those rights to fishing are only some of the rights encompassed in "Netuklimk," a Mi'kmaw concept which may be freely translated into English as "providing for oneself and/or others." These rights come to the Mi'kmaq from the Creator, not from a treaty or a court. The court, like the treaty, only recognizes and affirms our inherent Aboriginal (Mi'kmaw) right to Netuklimk.

Joe B. Marshall