The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – or Wills and Kate as they’re better known – were recently greeted by native Canadians in Charlottetown, on Prince Edward Island, Canada. One hundred and fifty-one years before, the then Prince of Wales visiting Charlottetown met the Micmac Indian Mrs Augustine Nicholas, who gave him a model canoe and some baskets. Afterwards she was asked what the Prince had given her: ‘Nothing’, she replied. But the visit did jolt the consciences of the Prince Edward Islanders. With the help of the Aborigines’ Protection Society in England, a fund was raised to buy Lennox Island, all five square kilometres of it, off the north of the greater land mass of Prince Edward Island (itself named after Queen Victoria’s father, the Duke of Kent, in 1798).
The Aborigines’ Protection Society (APS) had long been active on behalf of the Canadian natives .... Read on here : http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/10945/