Cured, they remain light, and also can be dyed. Both made in 1981. The splint flowers are found in many Maritime Provinces Indian homes as symbols of Indianness. Displays of them are often given to churches for special offerings to the Virgin. The flowers and leaves are dyed with commercial dyes, but subtle shadings, stripes or flecks and leaf veins are possible by scoring the splintwood in the true artcraft flowers.
Baskets are also a popular mail-order sales item.
U.S. M icmacs are recovering from particularly devastating betrayals. In 1776 at the start of the U.S. revolution against England,, they were the first tribe to sign a specific treaty with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on on behalf of the United Colonies of America, wherein Micmac and Maliseet tribes agreed to support the rvolutionaries against the British. Th rsult was all their land was taken and they recivd no governmental recognition as a tribe. In 1970, they gaind stat recognition as a tribe. But due to inadequate financial resourcs to document thir history and detrmine actual membership, they were excluded from th 1980 federal and state settlement of the Maine Indian land claims, so they gained federal recognition as a tribe, but not the significant financial and land benefits the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes achieved.