Here was Vinland : the Great Lakes region of America / by James W. Curran. Sault Ste. Marie, ON. : Sault Daily Star, 1939. xiv, 359 pages, [19] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 2
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 C94
Half title: Here was Vinland : a 1000 year old mystery solvedition At head of title: America's strangest story. Includes index.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse
Great Lakes — Discovery and exploration.
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Legends of my people, the great Ojibway / illustrated and told by Norval Morriseau ; edited by Selwyn Dewdney. Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1965. xxii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 O38 L411 M877
Ojibwa Indians — Legends
First Nations of North America — Legends.
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Out of the depths : the experiences of Mi'kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia / Isabelle Knockwood with Gillian Thomas. Lockeport : Roseway, 1992. 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M619 K72 1992
Mi'kmaq — Education — History — 20th century
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Shubenacadie — Education — History — 20 century
Mi'kmaq — Residential schools
First Nations of North America &
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Encounters with tall sails and tall tales : Mi'kmaq society, 1500-1760 / William C. Wicken. Montreal : McGill University, 1994. vi, 487 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W636
Written for the Dept. of History.
Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia — History — To 1763.
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Micmac quillwork : Micmac Indian techniques of porcupine quill decoration, 1600-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; with an appendix on quilled-bark conservation, by Deborah Jewett. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1982. 230 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W592
Indian craft
Mi'kmaq — Art — History
Mi'kmaq — Industries — History
Indian art — North America — History
First Nations of North America — Industries — History.
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Stories from the Six Worlds : Micmac legends / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; illustrated by Kathy Kaulbach. Halifax : Nimbus, 1988. 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W551 1988
Mi'kmaq — Legends
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Legends
Tales — Maritime Provinces.
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The old man told us : excerpts from Micmac history, 1500-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; foreword by Peter Christmas. Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 385 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W55 1991
Includes index.
Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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Rebuilding the economic base of Indian communities: the Micmac in Nova Scotia / Fred Wien. Montréal : Institute for Research on Public Policy = Institut de recherches politiques, 1986. xxv, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W541 1986
Foreword and summary in English and French.
Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Mi'kmaq — Economic conditions
Mi'kmaq — Employment
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Economic conditions
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Employment.
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The Micmac : how their ancestors lived five hundred years ago / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Harold McGee ; illustrations by Kathy Kaulbach. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1983. 60 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 x 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W54
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces.
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Socioeconomic characteristics of the Micmac in Nova Scotia / Fred Wien. Halifax : Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, 1983. xx, 167 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W53
Dalhousie University. Institute of Public Affairs.
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Economic conditions
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Social conditions
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Economic conditions
Indians of North Amer
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Tracking Doctor Lonecloud : showman to legend keeper / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; including the memoir of Jerry Lonecloud reconstructed and annotated by Ruth Holmes Whitehead from interview notes by Clara Dennis. Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions, 2002. 183 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W474 2002
Co-published by: Nova Scotia Museum.
Dennis, Clara, 1881-1954
Lonecloud, Jerry, 1854-1930.
Mi'kmaq — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Entertainers — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Folklore.
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When the sun rises : the Micmac story / by Dorothy O. Wellwood. Prince Albert, Sask. : Northern Canada Evangelical Mission, 1985. x, 107 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W457
Northern Canada Evangelical Mission.
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces
Missionaries — Maritime Provinces
Evangelistic work — Maritime Provinces.
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The Micmac Indians of eastern Canada / by Wilson D. Wallis and Ruth Sawtell Wallis. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1955. xv, 515 pages : illustrations, ports., map. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W15
Wallis, Ruth Otis (Sawtell) 1895-
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How summer came to Canada / retold by William Toye ; pictures by Elizabeth Cleaver. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1969. 32 pages : col. illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 T75
This retelling was freely based in part on the version in Canadian wonder tales by Cyrus MacMillan.
Cleaver, Elizabeth, 1939-1985.
Folklore — Canada
First Nations of North America — Folklore
Seasons — Folklore.
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Paqtatek / introduction by Murdena Marshall ; essays by Eleanor Johnson ; compiled by Stephanie Inglis, Loy Mannette, Stacey Sulewski ; drawings by Dozay ; photography by J. Peyton Chisholm. Halifax : Garamond Press, 1991. ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 P218
Inglis, Stephanie Heather, 1957-
Mannette, Joy
Sulewski, Stacey.
Mi'kmaq — Social conditions
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Social conditions.
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The Micmac grammar of Father Pacifique / translated and retranscribed by John Hewson and Bernard Francis. Winnipeg : Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, 1990. xi, 280 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 P112
Francis, Bernard, 1948-
Hewson, John, 1930-
Mi'kmaq language — Grammar
First Nations of North America — Languages — Grammar.
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The Micmac ethnology collection of the Nova Scotia Museum / by Ruth Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1974. 58 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 N935
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Mi'kmaq : economics and evolution / Ronald J. Nash. Faunal remains from the Delorey Island site (Bj Cj-9) of Nova Scotia / Frances L. Stewart. Halifax,Nova Scotia : Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1986. [xi], 178 pages: illustrations; maps, tables; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 M636
Nash, Ronald J
Stewart, Frances L.
Mi'kmaq — Commerce
Mi'kmaq — Artifacts
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Elitekey : Micmac material culture from 1600 A.D. to the present / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; photos. by Ron Merrick. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1980. 84 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 E43
Mi'kmaq — Material culture
Mi'kmaq — Art.
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Eastern Algonquian relationships to proto-Algonquian social organization / by James Wherry. Halifax : St. Mary's Univ., 1979. 111 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M342 S146
Kinship
Algonquian Indians — Social life and customs
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Hidatsa social and ceremonial organization Washington, D.C. : Gov't Printing Off., 1965. xii, 528 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 H6
At head of title: Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
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The life of the Copper Eskimos / by D. Jenness. Ottawa : F.A. Acland, 1922. 277 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 E7 J43 L62
Southern party, 1913-16.
Cameron, John, 1873- Osteology of the western and central Eskimos.
Copper Eskimos — Antiquities
Copper Eskimos — History
Copper Eskimos — Folklore
Copper Eskimos — Social life and customs
Victoria Island (N.W.T.) — Antiquities.
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The conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian cultures 1504-1700 : a study in Canadian civilization / by Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey. Saint John, N.B. : Publications of the New Brunswick Museum, 1937. 206 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 B154
Errata slip mounted on fly-leaf.
First Nations of North America — Canada
Algonquian Indians
Canadians, French-speaking
Canada — Civilization.
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A Guide to Northern Athapaskan and Metis collections residing in museums and archives outside of the Northwest Territories / prepared for Prince of Wales Nortern Heritage Centre by Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute. Northwest Territories : The Centre, 1997. 13 pages + appendices ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 A86 G85 1997
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute.
Athapskan Indians — Bibliography
Metis — Bibliography.
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The life and traditions of the red man / by Joseph Nicolar ; with a new introd. by James D. Wherry. Fredericton, N.B. : Saint Annes Point Press, 1979. xvi, 150 pages : port. ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E98 R3 N637
First Nations of North America — Religion and mythology
First Nations of North America — Legends.
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