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Mi'kmaq & Maliseet cultural ancestral material: National collections from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Augustine, S.  (2005).  Mi'kmaq & Maliseet cultural ancestral material: National collections from the Canadian Museum of Civilization.  Gatineau, Quebec:  Canadian Museum of Civilization.   

258 pp. 

DAL/Kill - E 99 M6 C36 2005

SMU – E 99 M6 C36 2005 

CBU - E 99 M6 C36 2005

CBU/Government Document Collection - 2FG NM 95-21 140

CBU/ MRC - E 99 M6 C36 2005

MSVU - E 99 M6 C36 2005

SFX - E 99 M6 C36 2005

Wowkwis aqq Ka'qaquj[in Mi'kmaq and English

Sylliboy, B.  (1999).  Wowkwis aqq Ka'qaquj[in Mi'kmaq and English].  Eskasoni, Nova Scotia: Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Language Centre of Excellence. 

28pp. 

CBU/MRC - Pam#200 MRC 2002-200-1718

Publisher URL:  http://kinu.ns.ca/excellence/materials.html

Mi'kmaq language primer geared to kindergarten level.  A re-working of the Aesop's fable of the fox and the crow in Mi'kmaq with English translation.

A brief history of Mi'kmaq education in Atlantic Canada

Sylliboy, B.  (2005).  A brief history of Mi'kmaq education in Atlantic Canada.  Unpublished manuscript, Mi'kmaq Resource Centre, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia. 

33pp.

CBU/MRC - Article #441 MRC 2008-441-2966

Examines Mi'kmaw education including the state of Mi'kmaq language in the latter part of the 20th century.  Offers suggestions for language preservation and describes language initiatives among Mi'kmaw communities.  Includes list of existing language development resources.

 

Stones and switches

Stones and Switches, Simon’s first and only novel, is set in the 1930s on the fictional reservation of Messkig, one of the Mi’kmaq words for “large.” “It is an ironic name for a reservation,” writes Simon, “that has had most of its lands illegally taken” (152). It tells the story of Megwadesk (a Mi'kmaq word for the “northern lights”) and his common-law partner Mimiges (“butterfly”). Megwadesk is experiencing a struggle between his traditional Native upbringing and the more immediate and alluring white world. His dreams are haunted by the frequent appearance of rabid animals:

Out of Depths

Knockwood, I. & Thomas, G.  (1992).  Out of the depths: The experiences of Mi'kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia (2nd ed.).  Lockeport, Nova Scotia: Roseway.  

Teli Amaskiplnup/The Passion of our Lord, prayer and chant

Sylliboy, H. (1992). Teli Amaskiplnup/The Passion of our Lord, prayer and chant [in Mi'kmaq]. Unpublished manuscript, Mi'kmaq Resource Centre, Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS.

21pp.

UCB/MRC - Pam#233 MRC 2003-233-1795

Symbols copied from the Mi'kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayer Book published in 1921.  Shows the "Passion of Our Lord" in hieroglyphs with Mi'kmaq translation.  Hieroglyphs interpreted by Helen Sylliboy & David Schmidt under guidance from Murdena Marshall and Wilfred Prosper.

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