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Finding Kluskap: A Journey Into Mi'kmaw Myth

Finding Kluskap: A Journey Into Mi'kmaw Myth

Reid, Jennifer

Paperback

Series: Signifying (On) Scriptures, Book 2

Native American HistoryReligion General Mythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 0271060697
ISBN13: 9780271060699
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Feb 15 2016
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Mi'kmaq of eastern Canada were among the first indigenous North Americans to encounter colonial Europeans. As early as the mid-sixteenth century, they were trading with French fishers, and by the mid-seventeenth century, large numbers of Mi'kmaq had converted to Catholicism. Mi'kmaw Catholicism is perhaps best exemplified by the community's regard for the figure of Saint Anne, the grandmother of Jesus. Every year for a week, coinciding with the saint's feast day of July 26, Mi'kmaw peoples from communities throughout Quebec and eastern Canada gather on the small island of Potlotek, off the coast of Nova Scotia. It is, however, far from a conventional Catholic celebration. In fact, it expresses a complex relationship between the Mi'kmaq, Saint Anne, a series of eighteenth-century treaties, and a cultural hero named Kluskap.

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