Muiwlanej kikamaqki "Honouring Our Ancestors": Mi'kmaq Who Left a Mark on the History of the Northeast, 1680 to 1980 (Studies in Atlantic Canada History)
Author: by Janet E. Chute (Editor), Donald M. Julien (Foreword)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication Date: 2023-11-27
Language: English
Print Length: 1004 pages
ISBN-10: 1487546130
ISBN-13: 9781487546137
Book Description
Drawing upon oral and documentary evidence, this volume explores the lives of noteworthy Mi’kmaw individuals whose thoughts, actions, and aspirations impacted the history of the Northeast but whose activities were too often relegated to the shadows of history.
The book highlights Mi’kmaw leaders who played major roles in guiding the history of the region between 1680 and 1980. It sheds light on their community and emigration policies, organizational and negotiating skills, diplomatic endeavours, and stewardship of land and resources. Contributors to the volume range from seasoned scholars with years of research in the field to Mi’kmaw students whose interest in their history will prove inspirational. Offering important new insights, the book re-centres Indigenous nationhood to alter the way we understand the field itself. The book also provides a lengthy index so that information may be retrieved and used in future research.
Muiwlanej kikamaqki – Honouring Our Ancestors will engage the interest of Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike, engender pride in Mi’kmaw leadership legacies, and encourage Mi’kmaw youth and others to probe more deeply into the history of the Northeast.
Review
"This book is an invaluable and original offering. Muiwlanej kikamaqki – Honouring Our Ancestors makes a significant contribution to Mi’kmaq history by successfully bringing little-known individuals into the light and by placing them in a historical context that is uniquely informed by both written and oral narratives. For Mi’kmaq wanting to know more about their history, this book will be a wonderful source."
-- Natasha Simon, Nihkanatpat (Director) of the Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre, University of New Brunswick
"This book is deeply researched, both in written sources and in integrating the invaluable evidence of Indigenous knowledge. The detailed individual and family histories are uniquely effective in bringing out both changes and continuities in Mi’kmaw history and in the texture of Mi’kmaw interactions with non-Indigenous sojourners and settlers. With a remarkable and outstanding depth of scholarship, the book meticulously pursues biography as an approach that can be extended to people whose lives have too often been deemed to be insufficiently documented for conventional purposes, in order to take our historical understanding in innovative and productive directions."
-- John Reid, Professor of History, Saint Mary’s University
About the Author
Janet E. Chute is the principal investigator in a biographical project which led to the research, writing, and compilation of a series of entries on Mi’kmaw figures of historic note.
Donald M. Julien is the executive director of The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq.
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