Roger Lewis is Assistant Curator, Ethnology, for the Nova Scotia Museum and a Nova Scotian of Mi’kmaq ancestry. He has a special interest in the distinctive Mi’kmaq craft of porcupine quill decoration on birch bar He is a  Mi’kmaq historian and one of the first Mi’kmaq archeologists. Roger Lewis is a member of the Indian Brook Mi’kmaq First Nations community located near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.