Download or read book L Nuk the Mi kmaq of Atlantic Canada written by Theresa Meuse and published by Nimbus Publishing (CN). This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In L'nu'k: The People, First Nations educator Theresa Meuse traces the incredible lineage of today's Mi'kmaq people, sharing the fascinating details behind their customs, traditions and history. Discover the proper way to make Luski (Mi'kmaq bread), the technique required for intricate quillwork and canoe building, what happens at a powwow and how North America earned its Aboriginal name, Turtle Island.
Download or read book Ni n Na L nu written by A. J. B. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award Winner of PEI Book Award for Non-fiction This lavishly-illustrated book tells a story through words and images that has never before been told, not in any single book. The focus is entirely on the Mi'kmaq of the Island, an island which for thousands of years has been known to the Mi'kmaq and their ancestors as Epekwitk. That name means cradle on the sea and no more poetic description of PEI has ever been penned. The story of the PEI Mi'kmaq is one of adaptation and perseverance across countless generations in the face of pervasive change. Today's environment is far from what it was millennia ago. So too, the economy, society, lifestyle, language and religion of the people has witnessed some dramatic shifts. Nonetheless, despite all the changes, today's Mi'kmaq feel deeply connected to the Island in its entirety and to their ancestors and the values they still share. This book tells those many stories, and communicates much more. While the book is a stand-alone publication, it is also a companion to a travelling exhibition of the same name.
Download or read book Mi kmaq Treaties on Trial written by William Wicken and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intersperses close analysis of the 1726 treaty with discussions of the Marshall case, and shows how the inter-cultural relationships and power dynamics of the past, have shaped both the law and the social climate of the present.
Download or read book The Mi kmaq Anthology written by Lesley Choyce and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive volume of Mi'kmaq writings available, this anthology is varied and spirited, bringing together both young and older writers. Included are essays on history, culture, and spirituality, as well as autobiography, traditional stories, and poetry. Valuable as a landmark of an ancient culture, The Mi'kmaq Anthology also delivers to a wide audience the wealth of creative talent within the Mi'kmaq ommunity today. Although many voices here may be new to the reading public, the book radiates with deep spirituality, social awareness, intellectual energy, and a passionate political concern for preserving the Mi'kmaq way of life.
Download or read book Mi kmaq Community written by Dolores Nixon and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history, language, and cultural practices of the Mi'kmaq, both in the past and in current times.
Download or read book Myth Symbol and Colonial Encounter written by Jennifer Reid and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island (traditionally called Acadia) with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking peoples, the Mi'kmaq. Despite nearly three centuries of interaction, these communities have largely remained alienated from one another. What were the differences between Mi'kmaq and British structures of valuation? What were the consequences of Acadia's colonization for both Mi'kmaq and British people? By examining the symbolic and mythic lives of these peoples, Reid considers the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots of this alienation and suggests that interaction between British and Mi'kmaq during the period was substantially determined by each group's fundamental religious need to feel rooted - to feel at home in Acadia.
Download or read book L sitkuk written by Darlene Anne Ricker and published by Lockeport, N.S. : Roseway. This book was released on 1997 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'sitkuk (pronounced elsetkook) is the original name for the Bear River Mi'kmaw community, which is part of the Mi'kmaw First Nation. Nestled close to the Bear River watershed, this tiny native community is regaining its culture, language and identity after hundreds of years of colonialism and assimilation. Living in the area for thousands of years, they were among the first people in Canada to have continuous contact with non-natives. This book preserves the memory of the elders through oral histories and old photographs, and tells who these people are and how they survived, prospered and sustained one another. The stories of everyday life reflect native values and the strong ideal of interconnectedness in the community. Darlene A. Ricker listened to the stories and learned about the traditions and culture of the closely knit Mi'kmaw community at Bear River. From her interviews with elders and young people, she has drawn this poignant oral history.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes written by Carl Waldman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia which provides information on over 150 native tribes of North America, including prehistoric peoples.
Download or read book Mi kmaq Landscapes written by Anne-Christine Hornborg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi'kmaq culture hero Kluskap serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. In order not to depict Mi'kmaq culture as timeless, two important periods in its history are examined. Within the first period, between 1850 and 1930, Hornborg explores historical evidence of the ontology, epistemology, and ethics - jointly labelled animism - that stem from a premodern Mi'kmaq hunting subsistence. New ways of discussing animism and shamanism are here richly exemplified. The second study situates the culture hero in the modern world of the 1990s, when allusions to Mi'kmaq tradition and to Kluskap played an important role in the struggle against a planned superquarry on Cape Breton. This study discusses the eco-cosmology that has been formulated by modern reserve inhabitants which could be labelled a 'sacred ecology'. Focusing on how the Mi'kmaq are rebuilding their traditions and environmental relations in interaction with modern society, Hornborg illustrates how environmental groups, pan-Indianism, and education play an important role, but so does reserve life. By anchoring their engagement in reserve life the Mi'kmaq traditionalists have, to a large extent, been able to confront both external and internal doubts about their authenticity.
Download or read book Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians written by Lindsay Ruck and published by Nimbus Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 50 historical and contemporary profiles, this fascinating book takes a look at the lives of Black Atlantic Canadians that saved lives, set records, and enacted great change.
Download or read book First Nations Identity and Reserve Life written by Simone Poliandri and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues of identity figure prominently in Native North American communities, mediating their histories, traditions, culture, and status. This is certainly true of the Mi?kmaw people of Nova Scotia, whose lives on reserves create highly complex economic, social, political, and spiritual realities. This ethnography investigates identity construction and negotiations among the Mi?kmaq, as well as the role of identity dynamics in Mi?kmaw social relationships on and off the reserve. Featuring direct testimonies from over sixty individuals, this work offers a vivid firsthand perspective on contemporary Mi?kmaw reserve life. Simone Poliandri begins First Nations, Identity, and Reserve Life with a search for the criteria used by the Mi?kmaq to construct their identities, which are traced within the context of their different perceptions of community, tradition, spirituality, relationship with the Catholic Church, and the recent reevaluation of the iconic figure of late activist Annie Mae Aquash. Building on the notions of self-identification and ascribed identity as the primary components of identity, Poliandri argues that placing others at specific locations within the social landscape of their communities allows the Mi?kmaq to define and reinforce their own spaces by way of association, contrast, or both. This identification of others highlights Mi?kmaw people?s agency in shaping and monitoring the representations of their identities. With its theoretical insights, this richly textured ethnography will enhance understanding of identity dynamics among Indigenous communities even as it illuminates the unique nature of the Mi?kmaw people.
Download or read book The World Above the Sky written by Kent Stetson and published by McArthur & Co. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Above the Sky transports seventeen-year-old Eugainia St Clare Delacroix—the Living Holy Grail—from certain death at the hands of her enemies to the safety of the New World. The year is 1398. Fleet commander Prince Henry Sinclair, Eugainia’s protector and champion, clings to the dying Templar dream of establishing a New Arcadia with Eugainia enthroned at its beating heart. The Royal and Holy Blood flows in Eugainia’s veins: her lineage stretches back beyond the Christ and Mary Magdalene, past the Kings David and Solomon, past the man-god Pharaohs of Egypt to the dawn of time itself. Eugainia disembarks weakened and near death on the Atlantic coast of Canada. There stands the handsome, young and recently widowed Mimktawo’qu’sk, chief-in-waiting of a peaceful clan of east coast Mi’kmaqs. In Mimktawo’qu’sk’s veins runs the Ancient and Honourable blood of The People, blood as potent with magic as the living bones of the earth, blood rich in the mysteries of the star world—the world above the sky. In the time of the Two made One, Mimktawo’qu’sk and revitalized Eugainia break their chains, redefine divinity and, together, forge a new and shining world.
Download or read book Kekina muek Learning about the Mi kmaq of Nova Scotia written by The Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters include: The Story Begins (Debert Sites, Mersey River Sites, Kejikujik Petroglyphs); Meet the Mi'kmaq of Yesterday and Today, From Legends to Modern Media (tracing the language and communication of the Mi'kmaq); The Evolution of Mi'kmaw Education (charting the challenges, the failures, and the successes); The Challenge of Identity (addressing the complex question of Mi'kmaw citizenship), Mi'kmaw Spirituality and Organized Religon-(The fascinating formation of contemporary Mi'kmaw sprititual expression)., Entertainment and recreation, A Oneness with nature (understanding the connection and interaction between the Mi'kmaq and the natural environment.; Freedom, Dependence, and Nation Building (Tracking the ever-changing relationshiop between Mi'maq and Canadian governments).
Download or read book Being and Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists written by George Nicholas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tells the stories—in their own words-- of 37 indigenous archaeologists from six continents, how they became archaeologists, and how their dual role affects their relationships with their community and their professional colleagues.
Download or read book We Were Not the Savages written by Daniel N. Paul and published by Nimbus Publishing (CN). This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Micmac Indians of northeastern North America. Includes descriptions of traditinal social and political systems but focuses primarily on the post-colonization period.
Download or read book Mi kmaq written by Christine Webster and published by Av2 by Weigl. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the traditional ways of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples in this informative series for young readers. Music and dance, art, tools, transportation, clothing, and housing are some of the topics covered in the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada series. Book jacket.
Download or read book Animals and Religion written by Dave Aftandilian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do animals—other than human animals—have to do with religion? How do our religious ideas about animals affect the lives of real animals in the world? How can we deepen our understanding of both animals and religion by considering them together? Animals and Religion explores how animals have crucially shaped how we understand ourselves, the other living beings around us, and our relationships with them. Through incisive analyses of religious examples from around the world, the original contributions to this volume demonstrate how animals have played key roles in every known religious tradition, whether as sacred beings, symbols, objects of concern, fellow creatures, or religious teachers. And through our religious imagination, ethics, and practices, we have deeply impacted animal lives, whether by domesticating, sacrificing, dominating, eating, refraining from eating, blessing, rescuing, releasing, commemorating, or contemplating them. Drawing primarily on perspectives from religious studies and Christian theology, augmented by cutting-edge work in anthropology, biology, philosophy, and psychology, Animals and Religion offers the reader a richer understanding of who animals are and who we humans are. Do animals have emotions? Do they think or use language? Are they persons? How we answer questions like these affects diverse aspects of religion that shape not only how we relate to other animals, but also how we perceive and misperceive each other along axes of gender, race, and (dis)ability. Accessibly written and thoughtfully argued, Animals and Religion will interest anyone who wants to learn more about animals, religion, and what it means to be a human animal.
