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In 1899 the Canadian government passed legislation to replace the appointment of Mi'kmaw leaders and Mi'kmaw political practices with the triennial system, a Euro-Canadian system of democratic band council elections. Officials in Ottawa assumed the federally mandated and supervised system would redefine Mi'kmaw politics. They were wrong. Drawing on reports and correspondence of the Department of Indian Affairs, Martha Walls details the rich life of Mi'kmaw politics between 1899 and 1951. She shows that many Mi'kmaw communities rejected, ignored, or amended federal electoral legislation, while others accepted it only sporadically, not in acquiescence to Ottawa's assimilative project but to meet specific community needs and goals. Compelling and timely, this book supports Aboriginal claims to self-governance and complicates understandings of state power by showing that the Mi'kmaw, rather than succumbing to imposed political models, retained political practices that distinguished them from their Euro-Canadian neighbours.

Mi'kmaq peoples --- Election law --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Politics and government. --- Government relations.

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"The story chronicles the collaborative efforts of Wildcat First Nation community members and North Queens School staff as we collaborate and learn initially through a salmon project based in the community and then through the implementation of a native studies course in the school. Both initiatives reflect our efforts to centre and legitimate Mi'kmaw knowledge in the school." Written in the form of a trickster tale, the book explores the challenges of incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, and being in education. The research uses Indigenous research methodology to examine, through storytelling, the work of a group of educators and members of a Mi'kmaq community in Nova Scotia whose collaborative projects addressed this challenge. Crow, a central trickster character in the story, embodies the wisdom of Indigenous Elders. The juxtapositioning of Crow and the academic writer, who understands the world through Western epistemology, highlights the convergence of these two worldviews in teaching and learning. Their dialogue demonstrates the need for educators to critically examine their assumptions about the world and to decolonize their thinking in order to participate in Aboriginal education. The narrative is an interweaving of voices from Elders, educators, Mi'kmaq community members and trickster figures that speak to the interconnectivity of all life. A salmon project reinforces the teachings of respect, reciprocity, and responsibility and, in so doing, emphasizes the need for repairing and strengthening relationships with other people and all other life on the land as fundamentally important to the efforts of decolonizing our minds."--

Micmac Indians. --- Micmac Indians --- Mickmak Indians --- Migmac Indians --- Mi'kmaq Indians --- Mi'kmaw Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- Education --- Mi'kmaq peoples --- Mi'kmaq. --- Mi'kmaq

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"The book describes in detail the findings of five seasons (2008-2012) of survey and excavation in Port Joli, and ten years of laboratory analysis, undertaken by the Canadian Museum of History, in collaboration with Acadia First Nation. It also incorporates data recovered from previous archaeological work conducted in Port Joli by Erskine, Raddall, Millard, and others, providing a complete synthesis of one of Nova Scotia’s richest Indigenous archaeological records. Reviving the art of a traditional archaeology 'site monograph', the work provides a complete presentation of all the archaeological information recovered, including full-colour artifact plates, technical drawings, profiles, and maps, in addition to a complete data description and synthesis. The final chapter presents a culture history of the Port Joli, summarizing how the 'pretty harbour' became a central place for Mi’kmaq prior to the arrival of Europeans. A copublication with the Canadian Museum of History."--

Micmac Indians --- Micmac Indians. --- Harbors. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities. --- Harbors --- Mickmak Indians --- Migmac Indians --- Mi'kmaq Indians --- Mi'kmaw Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Anchorages (Harbors) --- Harbours --- Ports --- Seaports --- Channels (Hydraulic engineering) --- Hydraulic structures --- Terminals (Transportation) --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- History. --- E'se'get Archaeology Project. --- E'se'get Archaeological Project --- E'se'get Project --- Port Joli (N.S.) --- Pretty Harbour (N.S.) --- Mi'kmaq peoples --- Mi'kmaq peoples. --- Acadia First Nation. --- Archaeology. --- Community-based research. --- Mi'kmaq. --- Nova Scotia. --- Port Joli. --- Mi'kmaq

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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 conte

Indian reservations --- Micmac Indians --- Indian reserves --- Indians of North America --- Reservations, Indian --- Reserves, Indian --- Tribal lands (Indian reservations) --- Land use --- Mickmak Indians --- Migmac Indians --- Mi'kmaq Indians --- Mi'kmaw Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Ethnic identity. --- Reservations --- Indian Brook First Nation --- Truro Region (N.S.) --- Mi'kmaq peoples --- Mi'kmaq

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The Mi’kmaq of eastern Canada were among the first indigenous North Americans to encounter colonial Europeans. As early as the mid-sixteenth century, they were trading with French fishers, and by the mid-seventeenth century, large numbers of Mi’kmaq had converted to Catholicism. Mi’kmaw Catholicism is perhaps best exemplified by the community’s regard for the figure of Saint Anne, the grandmother of Jesus. Every year for a week, coinciding with the saint’s feast day of July 26, Mi’kmaw peoples from communities throughout Quebec and eastern Canada gather on the small island of Potlotek, off the coast of Nova Scotia. It is, however, far from a conventional Catholic celebration. In fact, it expresses a complex relationship between the Mi’kmaq, Saint Anne, a series of eighteenth-century treaties, and a cultural hero named Kluskap.	Finding Kluskap brings together years of historical research and learning among Mi’kmaw peoples on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The author’s long-term relationship with Mi’kmaw friends and colleagues provides a unique vantage point for scholarship, one shaped not only by personal relationships but also by the cultural, intellectual, and historical situations that inform postcolonial peoples. The picture that emerges when Saint Anne, Kluskap, and the mission are considered in concert with one another is one of the sacred life as a site of adjudication for both the meaning and efficacy of religion—and the impact of modern history on contemporary indigenous religion.

Micmac Indians --- Micmac --- Micmac mythology. --- Spirituality --- Gluskap (Legendary character) --- Social life and customs. --- Government relations. --- Indigenous --- Glooscap (Legendary character) --- Glooskap (Legendary character) --- Gloskap (Legendary character) --- Glous'gap (Legendary character) --- Gluskabe (Legendary character) --- Jamum (Legendary character) --- Kloskap (Legendary character) --- Kuloskap (Legendary character) --- Manabozho (Legendary character) --- Nanabozho (Legendary character) --- Nenabozho (Legendary character) --- Legends --- Mythology, Micmac --- Mickmak Indians --- Migmac Indians --- Mi'kmaq Indians --- Mi'kmaw Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- Mi'kmaq peoples --- Mi'kmaq mythology.