Chapter five. At home in colonial Acadia

• 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/2074

Within both British and Mi’kmaq communities, the need for a sense of rootedness and continuity of place fuelled religious imaginations, giving rise to religious symbols that confronted the necessities of place while accounting for particular experiences. The lives that revolved around these were encrusted with myths that articulated specific instances of the unity provided by the symbols. In this sense, the religious imagination of all Acadia’s people struggled with the problem of identity an.