Beothuk and Micmac . m uj — EQ-l- g LUq — xoc 1 ^-o >-o o_ _lO q:< « UJ . l^ 5^ to 0:3 8 ox o b-H vO c^ SPECK—BEOTHUK AND MICMAC PL. XXXIV. SANTU AND HER SON. JOE TONEY S A N T L 59 was a full-blood native of a tribe which calleditself Osayana. The name is also knownamong the Micmac as Osayana. Withher father she left Newfoundland at aboutthe age of ten, or a little less, and removedto Nova Scotia, where she passed her earlywomanhood. Her mother was a IMicmacwoman, one of the band who lived in New-foundland. She died, it seems, when Santuwas quite young. A\hen Santu grew up, shemarried a
Beothuk and Micmac . m uj — EQ-l- g LUq — xoc 1 ^-o >-o o_ _lO q:< « UJ . l^ 5^ to 0:3 8 ox o b-H vO c^ SPECK—BEOTHUK AND MICMAC PL. XXXIV. SANTU AND HER SON. JOE TONEY S A N T L 59 was a full-blood native of a tribe which calleditself Osayana. The name is also knownamong the Micmac as Osayana. Withher father she left Newfoundland at aboutthe age of ten, or a little less, and removedto Nova Scotia, where she passed her earlywomanhood. Her mother was a IMicmacwoman, one of the band who lived in New-foundland. She died, it seems, when Santuwas quite young. A\hen Santu grew up, shemarried a Mohawk and spent part of hertime in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,and part in roaming about in the neighbor-hood of the Great Lakes with her ^Mohawkhusband until the Civil War broke out,when, to escape being drafted, he led herwandering again throughout the northeast-ern states and eastern Canada. Her hus-band then died. Santu returned to NovaScotia and married a Micmac chief nearYarmouth, whose name was Toney. Liv-ing there a while, she had four or five chil-dren, and finally, with her youngest son,separated from her husband and since th
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