The Stone Canoe : Two Lost Mi'Kmaq Texts / translated by Elizabeth Paul. Kentville : Gaspereau Press, Printers & Publishers, 2007. 183 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 S86 2007
This work showcases two forgotten stories from Silas T. Rand, Baptist missionary who wanted to translate bibles into the Mi'Kmaq language and learned how to do so by recording the oral traditions of the Mi'Kmaq people, published in 'Legends of the Micmacs'. Peter Sanger uncovered two manuscripts in the Rand holdings of Acadia University, including the story of Little Thunder (dictated to Rand by Susan Barss in 1847) and a manuscript of stories told by someone we only know as old man Stevens. Rand's original book and these manuscripts are some of the earliest examples of indigenous Canadian literature recorded in the original language.
essays, notes, and supporting material by Peter Sanger
illustrations by Alan Syliboy
Rand, Silas Tertius, — 1810-1889
Barss, Susan
Micmac — Folklore
Micmac language — Texts
Micmac mythology — Manuscripts
Oral tradition — Nova Scotia
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Beeton's classical dictionary: A cyclopaedia of Greek and Roman biography, geography, mythology, and antiquities, with appendices London : (London : Ward, Lock & Tyler Wyman and Sons) 187--. 254 pages ; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PAB414
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Form in primitive music : an analytical and comparative study of the melodic form of some ancient southern California Indian songs / by Helen H. Roberts. New York : American library of musicology : W. W. Norton, 1933. x, 180 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3547 R631 F723
The songs ... are derived from three sources: Luiseño, Gabrielino presumably mainland although not clearly so and a small number plainly stated to belong to Catalina.--Introd., pages 2. Includes music.
First Nations of North America — Music
Luiseño Indians
Gabrielino Indians
First Nations of North America — California — Santa Catalina island
Shoshonean Indians — Religion and mythology
Musical form
Musical instruments, Primitive.
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Funk & Wagnalls standard dictionary of folklore, mythology, and legend / Maria Leach, editor ; Jerome Fried, associate editor. New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1972. xv, 1236 pages ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR35 F82 1972
Reissue of the 1949-1950 edition with minor corrections. Key to countries, regions, cultures, culture areas, peoples, tribes, and ethnic groups: pages [1197]-1236.
Folklore — Dictionaries
Mythology — Dictionaries
Manners and customs — Dictionaries
Rites and ceremonies — Dictionaries.
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The golden bough : a study in magic and religion Abridged ed. New York : Macmillan, 1951. 1 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN470.2 G618 F848
Mythology
Religion, Primitive
Magic
Superstition.
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Some recent Micmac witchcraft beliefs / by Vincent O. Erickson.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN3 C212
In National Museum of Man mercury series, Canadian Ethnology service paper no. 40, pages 189-200.
Mi'kmaq — Religion and mythology.
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The Dîné : origin myths of the Navaho Indians Washington, D.C. : U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1956. vii, 187 pages : illustrations, diagrs. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 N22 Ob6
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
Navaho Indians — Religion and mythology
Navaho Indians — Legends.
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Origin myth of Acoma and other records / by Matthew W. Stirling. Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1942. viii, 123 pages, 17 plates (1 colour) on 9 pages : ill
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 St5
At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
Acoma Indians — Religion and mythology
Acoma (N.M.)
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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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Moon of wintertime : missionaries and the Indians of Canada in encounter since 1534 / John Webster Grant. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1984. viii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 C2 G72 1984
First Nations of North America — Canada — Missions — History
First Nations of North America — Canada — Religion and mythology
Christianity — Canada — Missions — History
Missions — Canada — History.
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