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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 'Conquest' of Acadia will be a significant contribution to Acadian history, native studies, native rights histories, and the socio-political history of the eighteenth century.

Micmac Indians --- History --- Acadia --- Annapolis Royal (N.S.) --- Nova Scotia --- Canada --- Great Britain --- Acadie --- Nouvelle-Ecosse --- History. --- Colonies --- Administration. --- Histoire --- Sagas --- Grettir Ásmundarson, --- Ásmundarson, Grettir, --- Colonization. --- Mickmak Indians --- Migmac Indians --- Mi'kmaq Indians --- Mi'kmaw Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867). --- Mi'kmaq peoples

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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.

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In The Marshall Decision and Native Rights Ken Coates explains the cross-cultural, legal, and political implications of the recent Supreme Court decision on the Donald Marshall case. He describes the events, personalities, and conflicts that brought the Maritimes to the brink of a major confrontation between Mi'kmaq and the non-Mi'kmaq fishers in the fall of 1999, detailing the bungling by federal departments and the lack of police preparedness. He shows how political, business, and Mi'kmaq leaders in the Maritimes handled the volatile situation, urging non-violence and speaking out against racism, in contrast to the way federal and regional leaders have responded in other parts of the country. Legal victories such as Marshall, argues Coates, are a double-edged sword that provide greater legal clarity but expand the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in Canada. Coates recounts the history of Mi'kmaq-white contact in the region and considers the impact of native rights on natural resources, showing that the costs will be borne mainly by rural Canadians. By placing the local and regional reaction to the Marshall decision in the broader historical, national, and international context of indigenous political and legal rights The Marshall Decision and Native Rights shows how little Canada has learned from three decades of First Nations legal conflicts and how far the country is from meaningful reconciliation.

Malecite Indians --- Micmac Indians --- Natural resources --- Mickmak Indians --- Migmac Indians --- Mi'kmaq Indians --- Mi'kmaw Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- Etchemin Indians --- Mahnesheets Indians --- Maliseet Indians --- Malisit Indians --- Marashite Indians --- Marechite Indians --- Maricheet Indians --- Mayisit Indians --- Melicete Indians --- Milicete Indians --- Tobic Indians --- Tobique Indians --- Abenaki Indians --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Government relations. --- Government policy --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Economic aspects --- Marshall, Donald --- Marshall, Donald, --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Mi'kmaq peoples --- Fishing --- Law and legislation --- Claims. --- Indigenous peoples --- Mi'kmaq