Six Mi'kmaq Stories

Six Mi'kmaq Stories PDF Author: Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN: 9781551097732
Category : Micmac Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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These six stories were collected from the 1800s to 1900s. The author has reworked these ancient stories to make them more like the way they would have been told.

Six Mi'kmaq Stories

Six Mi'kmaq Stories PDF Author: Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN: 9781551097732
Category : Micmac Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
These six stories were collected from the 1800s to 1900s. The author has reworked these ancient stories to make them more like the way they would have been told.

Stories from the Six Worlds

Stories from the Six Worlds PDF Author: Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus
ISBN:
Category : Algonquians
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Stories From The Six Worlds MicMac Legends.

Stories of the Mi'kmaq

Stories of the Mi'kmaq PDF Author: E. Calvin Coish
Publisher: Grand Falls-Windsor, NF : College of the North Atlantic
ISBN: 9780968290576
Category : Micmac Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Niniskamijinaqik

Niniskamijinaqik PDF Author: Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN: 9781771082631
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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The Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada were here for thousands of years before the arrival of European peoples. Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images: The Mi'kmaq in Art and Photography presents their unique culture and way of life through the remarkable and sometime complex lives of individuals, as depicted in artwork or photography. The opening images in this collection were created by the Mi'kmaq themselves: portrayals of human beings carved into the rock formations of Nova Scotia. Then there are the earliest surviving European depictions of Mi'kmaq, decorations on the maps of Samuel de Champlain. Finally we see portraits of Mi'kmaw individuals, ancestors in whom we see their "humanity frozen in the stillness of a photograph," as the writers of the book's foreword describe. Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images includes 94 compelling pieces of art and photography, chosen from more than a thousand extant portraits in different media, that show the Mi'kmaw people. Each image is an entry point to deeply personal history, a small moment or single person transformed into vivid immediacy for the reader.

Micmac Quillwork

Micmac Quillwork PDF Author: Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Publisher: Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Major portion of the work deals with the bark insertion technique. Lavishly illustrated with black and white and colour photographs.

Glooscap the Great Chief, and Other Stories

Glooscap the Great Chief, and Other Stories PDF Author: Emelyn Newcomb Partridge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gluskap (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Muin and the Seven Bird Hunters

Muin and the Seven Bird Hunters PDF Author: Lillian Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897009550
Category : Micmac Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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The story of Muin and the Seven Bird Hunters is a very old Mi'kaw legend. It happens in the North Sky as the stars that show the story of Muin and the Seven Bird Hunters move around Tatapn, the North Star.In pictures in this book you can see how these stars, shown as they appear two hours before dawn, move through the night sky. They are in a different position each of the seasons because they are the time-keepers, the are the calendar. All through the year, as the stars and plants travel through the sky, the Mi'Kmaq watch the story of Muin and the Seven Bird Hunters as it unfolds before their eyes.

Minegoo

Minegoo PDF Author: Sandra Dodge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927502853
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A long time ago, the Great Spirit created all of the sky and stars but it wasn't enough. He then made a beautiful place called Minegoo, a place so beautiful that He almost placed it amongst the stars. He decided that instead, he would place Minegoo in the most beautiful spot on earth. He summoned Kluskap and asked him to find this spot. After searching the whole world, Kluskap found the Shining Waters, the spot in the Gulf of St. Lawrence that would be home of the Mi'kmaq people created in his own image.

Black Loyalists

Black Loyalists PDF Author: Ruth Holmes Whithead
Publisher: Nimbus+ORM
ISBN: 1771080175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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“Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history.” —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My Name In an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women escaped to the British fleet patrolling the East Coast, or to the British armies invading the colonies from Maine to Georgia. After the final surrender of the British to the Americans, New York City was evacuated by the British Army throughout the summer and fall of 1783. Carried away with them were a vast number of White Loyalists and their families, and over 3,000 Black Loyalists: free, indentured, apprenticed, or still enslaved. More than 2,700 Black people came to Nova Scotia with the fleet from New York City. Black Loyalists strives to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to tell the little-known story of some very brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to pass through the heart, ironically, of a War for Liberty, to find their own liberty and human dignity. Includes historical images and documents

The Language of this Land, Mi'kma'ki

The Language of this Land, Mi'kma'ki PDF Author: Trudy Sable
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897009499
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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The ancient landscapes of Eastern North America are reflected in the language and cultural expressions of its Indigenous peoples, the Mi'kmaq. The rhythms, sounds and patterns of their language are inextricably bound with the seasonal cycles of the animals, plants, winds, skies, waterways and trade routes. The Language of this Land, Mi'kma'ki is an exploration of Mi'kmaw world view as expressed in language, legends, song and dance. Using imagery as codes, these include not only place names and geologic history, but act as maps of the landscape. Sable and Francis illustrate the fluid nature of reality inherent in its expression - its embodiment in networks of relationships with the landscape integral to the cultural psyche and spirituality of the Mi'kmaq. Language has sustained the Mi'kmaq to the present day, a product of a lineage of Elders who spoke it, who danced the dances and walked this land, Mi'kma'ki, carrying its traditions forward despite centuries of cultural disruption, discrimination and degradation.