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Finding Kluskap:

A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth
  • ISBN-13: 9780271060682
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Jennifer Reid
  • Price: AUD $148.00
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  • Local release date: 13/09/2013
  • Format: Hardback 136 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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Studies the mythic hero Kluskap of the Mi'kmaw people of eastern Canada, along with a series of eighteenth-century treaties and an annual Mi'kmaw mission to Saint Anne. Suggests that Kluskap, the treaties, and the mission are intertwined in a way that expresses a unique critique of modernity.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Treaties and Aquatic Parasites

2 Kluskap and Aboriginal Rights

3 The Saint Anne’s Day Mission

4 Knowing How and Where to Be

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“There is much in the book that is of great interest to folklorists including the connection among Mi’kmaw belief, stories of treaties, stories of broken promises and Mi’kmaw experience of the sacred. It is fascinating also that the treaties, perceived as sacred agreements to Mi’kmaw people, remain at the center of religious ritual even when ignored by the Canadian government. In the end, the book is well worth reading, especially as a starting point for additional folklore and historical research.”

—Pauleena MacDougall, Western Folklore

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