John Joe Sark, right, conducts a sweet grass ceremony with Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm, Shirley Wolff Serafini, federal deputy minister of Indian Affairs and Mi'kmaq Grand Chief Ben Sylliboy, left to right, during Treaty Day ceremonies in Halifax on Friday, Oct. 1, 1999. The commemorates the signing of the Treaty of 1752 between the Mi'kmaq and the British Crown. (CP PHOTO/Andrew Vaughan)