Chapter four. The boundaries of purity

• Main Author: Reid, Jennifer
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 2017
• Subjects: Mi’kmaq
• Online Access: http://books.openedition.org/uop/2073

Colonial Acadia posed a different problematic for the Mi’kmaq. The influx of peoples of British ancestry that began around the turn of the eighteenth century threatened, first, the native community’s claim to be rightfully at home on the land desired by colonials and, subsequently, its liberty to exist at all in Acadia. For the Mi’kmaq, the problem was one of how to retain a sense of continuity of place and rootedness when these were placed in jeopardy by others’ denial of the fundamental hum.