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“We cannot do better than to incite the Indians to continue warring on the English,” he wrote to his political masters. “I shall do my best to make it look to the English as if this plan comes from the Indians and that I have no part in it.”
It seems relevant to note that Le Loutre was also paying cash for hair — he doled out 1,800 French livres to Mi’kmaq warriors for 18 English scalps.
If we’re looking for the villain responsible for all that bloodshed and sorrow almost three centuries ago, however, we’ve punished the wrong man.