Account of the first election for the office of Grand Chief held at Chapel Island in 1918. Describes details of the election of Gabriel Sylliboy and of the St. Anne Mission, the tradition of salite or charity auction, and the election...
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Date Published 1996
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Sylliboy, H. (1992). Teli Amaskiplnup/The Passion of our Lord, prayer and chant [in Mi'kmaq]. Unpublished manuscript, Mi'kmaq Resource Centre, Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS.
21pp.
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Date Published 1992
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Knockwood, I. & Thomas, G. (1992). Out of the depths: The experiences of Mi'kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia (2nd ed.). Lockeport, Nova Scotia: Roseway.
“The Residential School...
Date Published 1992
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Sylliboy, H. (2003). Cape Breton place names. Unpublished manuscript, Cape Breton University, Mi'kmaq Resource Centre, Sydney, Nova Scotia.
8pp.
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Date Published 2003
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Sylliboy, H. (2000). Ki'kwa'ju aqq Tm'kwaliknej [in Mi'kmaq and English]. Eskasoni, Nova Scotia: Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw Language: Centre of Excellence.
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Date Published 2000
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Dorey, D.A. (1994). Aboriginal Self Government for the Mi'Kmaq People of Nova Scotia: Essential Features of a Workable Model. Truro, NS: Native Council of Nova Scotia, Language Program.
60 pp.
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Date Published 1993
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Francis, Rosalie Marie. (2003). The Mi’kmaq Nation and the Embodiment of Political Ideologies: Ni’kmaq, Protocol and Treaty Negotiations of the Eighteenth Century (Unpublished master’s thesis). St. Mary’s...
Date Published 2003
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Marshall, D. (Sr.), Denny, A. & Marshall, S. (1989). The covenant chain. In B. Richardson & Assembly of First Nations (Eds.), Drumbeat: Anger and renewal in Indian country (pp. 73-104). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
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Date Published 1989
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Stones and Switches, Simon’s first and only novel, is set in the 1930s on the fictional reservation of Messkig, one of the Mi’kmaq words for “large.” “It is an ironic name for a reservation,” writes Simon, “that has had most of its lands...
Date Published 1994
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Palmater, P., (2011) Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity, Purich Publishing Ltd, Saskatchewan
Pamela Palmater argues that the Indian Act's registration provisions (will lead to the extinguishment of First Nations as legal...
Date Published 2011
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