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Bear River First Nation : ウィキペディア英語版 | Bear River First Nation Bear River First Nation (Mi'kmaq: L'sɨtkuk〔(About L'sitkuk (Bear River First Nation) )〕) is a Míkmaq First Nation band government located in both Annapolis County and Digby County, Nova Scotia. As of 2012, the Mi'kmaq population is 103 on-Reserve, and approximately 211 off-Reserve.〔Bear River First Nation: (Population Registered )〕 Bear River First Nation lies adjacent to the village of Bear River, Nova Scotia. It has a church, Saint Anne's, completed in 1836, and a school which serves toddlers and preschoolers.〔(Community Profile )〕 The Mi'kmaq language is taught to children attending the school.〔(Bear River Educational Profile )〕 A health centre was established in 1998.〔(Bear River First Nation Health Centre )〕〔Bear River First Nation: (Health Centre )〕 ==History== Archaeological evidence suggests the community has existed in the area for 2,000 to 4,000 years. It lies in the ancient District of Kespukwitk, a part of the Mi'kmaq nation.〔Bear River First Nation: (Our History )〕〔Daniel Paul, ''We Were Not the Savages'', (second edition), 2000. p. 33〕 The people of Bear River are the Indigenous community whose ancestors welcomed Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, Samuel de Champlain and others who settled at Port-Royal in 1605.〔Bear River First Nation: (The French )〕 The ''sakmow'', or chief, at that time was Henri Membertou who befriended the French. The area around Port-Royal was the traditional summering site of Membertou's people.〔John Mack Faragher, ''A Great and Noble Scheme'', Norton, 2005, p. 12〕 The community were known as canoe builders who used their craft for fishing and hunting porpoise, in the Annapolis Basin and Bay of Fundy. Oil rendered from the porpoise was sold as a machine lubricant into the early part of the twentieth century.〔Mi'kmaq Resource Centre (UCCB), (Brief History of Muin Sipu (Bear River) and Early Porpoise Hunting )〕〔Bear River First Nation: (The Porpoise Hunt )〕
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