Battiste, M.  (1984).  Mi'kmaq cultural traditions ‘Pestie'wa'taqatimk'.  Unpublished Manuscript, Mi'kmaq Resource Centre, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia.  

4 pp.  

CBU/MRC - Report #657 MRC 2011-657-3815

Compiled by Marie Battiste from interviews done by Elders Roddie Stevens, Eskasoni, and Lillian Marshall, Chapel Island in conversation with Elders - who included Lillian Marshall's father, Noel Marshall.  

Description of the period from December to the beginning of January, `Pestie'wa'taqatimk' and of the activities that occurred, which were both religious and secular in nature.  These activities included prayer, feasting, dancing, storytelling, and song, and included firing of a rifle - a tradition that survived up to the 1930s.