Editing Halifax Explosion (section)

===Mi'kmaq settlement===
There were small enclaves of [[Mi'kmaq]] in and around the coves of Bedford Basin on the Dartmouth shore. Directly opposite to Pier 9 on the Halifax side sat a community in [[Tufts Cove, Nova Scotia|Tufts Cove]] which included the Mi'kmaq community of Turtle Grove. In the years and months preceding the explosion, the [[Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada|Department of Indian Affairs]] had been actively trying to force the Mi'kmaq to give up their land and move to a reserve, but this had not occurred by the time of the explosion.{{sfn|Kitz|Payzant|2006|p=87}}<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|last1=Remes|first1=Jacob|title=Mi'kmaq in the Halifax Explosion of 1917: Leadership, Transience, and the Struggle for Land Rights|journal=Ethnohistory|date=2014|volume=61|issue=3|pages=445–466|doi=10.1215/00141801-2681732}}</ref> Turtle Grove was close to the centre of the blast and the physical structures of the settlement were obliterated by the explosion and tsunami.<ref name=canen/> A precise Mi'kmaq death toll is unknown as the Department of Indian Affairs and census records for the community were incomplete. Nine bodies were recovered from Turtle Grove and there were eleven known survivors.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jennifer |last=Burke|chapter=Turtle Grove: Dartmouth's Lost Mi'kmaq Community|title=Ground Zero: A Reassessment of the 1917 Explosion in Halifax Harbour|publisher=Nimbus Publishing |year=1994|pages= 50&ndash;51}}</ref> The Halifax Remembrance Book lists 16 members of the Tufts Cove Community as dead; not all the dead listed as in Tufts Cove were Indigenous.<ref name=pans/> The Turtle Grove settlement was not rebuilt in the wake of the disaster.{{sfn|Kitz|Payzant|2006|p=88}} Survivors were housed in a racially segregated building under generally poor conditions and most were eventually dispersed around Nova Scotia.<ref name=":0" />