Finding Kluskap : a journey into Mi'kmaw myth

• Main Author: Reid, Jennifer
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholar Works 2013
• Subjects: Micmac Indians; mythology; Gluskap; aboriginal rights; social life and customs; Canadian History; Breton Island; Canada; Mi’kmaq; Mi’kmaw
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/61

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...