Mi'kmaw Catholicism: oral tradition, transculturation, and resistance in Mi'kma'ki

• Main Author: Hughes, M.I. Micheline
• Other Authors: Thorpe, Jocelyn (History/Women's and Gender Studies), Sinclair, Niigaan (Indigenous Studies), Robinson, Angela (Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland), Trott, Christopher
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Mi'kmaw Catholicism; Indigenous Studies; Oral tradition; Currie; Turtle Island; First Nations; inuit; Mi’kmaq; Mi’kmaw
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/37856

The Mi’kmaw Nation has lived in Mi’kma’ki for at least 11,000 years. In the time of early colonial efforts in Turtle Island, the Mi’kmaq submitted Catholicism to processes of transculturation which allowed it to be meaningful and beneficial to them. The decision to adopt and adapt Catholicism was va...