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Mi'kmaq Holdings Resource Guide

Library Holdings

Intended to complement and provide context for the archival holdings at Nova Scotia Archives, the Library includes many unique and rare titles and in its scope and content, covers all aspects of Nova Scotia history. Nearly 300 titles relate directly to the Mi'kmaq, and have been entered into a special Library Database created for the Mi'kmaq Holdings Resource Guide.

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Clara Dennis — Field Notes Book I. Topics include: Glooscap's origin and history, medicine, religion, mythology, material culture, legends about Caribou, Beaver, Ant, snow and ice, and the origin of the canoe. (1923) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 2867 number 1

Clara Dennis — Field Notes Book II. Topics include: the Little People, Cliff Dwellers, legends, courtship, birds and animals, how the Mi'kmaq preserve their legends, the Martin (Glooscap's neice), Rabbit, Advocate (Harbour area), the 3 Sisters, Cape Split, petroglyphs, the medicine garden, Glooscap's grandmother, Kejimkujik and Memramcook. () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 2867 number 2

Clara Dennis — Field Notes Book. (Continuation of Book III). Topics include: Mi'kmaq folklore, Moosemeall [Maillard] and Albert Johnson of Middle Point Cove. () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 2867 number 2a

Clara Dennis — Field Notes Book: select pages. Topics include: Hah-wa-say-ago and Glooscap. (1923) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 2867 number 3

Clara Dennis — Field Notes Book IV. Topics include: folklore, Tusket/Yarmouth area, Chief Louis Luxcey, Chief Philip Paul, notes about individual Mi'kmaq in NS, Gaywahsoonoowedge. () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 2867 number 4

Clara Dennis — Field Notes: select pages. Topics include legends from interviews with Chief Peter Wilmot and Jim Glode, and Nine Mile River. (1929) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 2867 number 6

Clara Dennis — Field Notes: selected pages. Topics include: Mi'kmaq and Indian Gardens. () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 2867 number 8

Clara Dennis — Field Notes: select pages. Topics include: Mi'kmaq and Whycocomagh. () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 2868 number 2

Kay Hill — Hill's research and notes on Glooscap "Book II." () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 1672 number 3

Kay Hill — Hill's research and notes on Glooscap "extra stories." () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 1672 number 4

Kay Hill — Hill's research and notes on Glooscap "Background." () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 1672 number 5

Kay Hill — Hill's "Glooscap Correspondence." () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 1672 number 6-7

Kay Hill — Hill's research and notes on "More Glooscap." () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 1675 number 7

Kay Hill — Hill's research and notes on "Glooscap and his people." () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 1687

Kay Hill — Hill's research, notes and draft manuscripts for "Glooscap stories." () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 3523 number 23

Marion Robertson — Series 6 - "Micmac." Series consists of correspondence, research notes, draft chapters for Red Earth: Tales of the Micmacs, with an introduction to the Customs and Beliefs of the Micmac Indians. Series also includes articles, newspaper clippings, periodicals, ephemera, sketches and coloured slides for an address. Subjects include: Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Mi'kmaq beliefs and customs, petroglyphs ("rock drawings") and other North American First Nations groups. () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 3617

Killam family — Indian Affairs papers of Indian Agent George R. Smith of Yarmouth County: from 4 July 1887 to 8 May 1896.George R. Smith () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 531 folder 12

Killam family — Indian Affairs receipts and letters of Indian Agent George R. Smith of Yarmouth County: from Jan. 1889 to June 1898.George R. Smith () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 531 folder 13

Killam family — Indian Affairs receipts of Indian Agent George R. Smith of Yarmouth County: from 3 Jan. 1891 to Dec. 1893.George R. Smith () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 531 folder 14

Killam family — Indian Affairs letters of Indian Agent George R. Smith of Yarmouth County: dating up to 1898.George R. Smith () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 531 folder 15

Killam family — Indian Affairs papers of Indian Agent George R. Smith of Yarmouth County: from July 1888 to April 1898.George R. Smith () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 532 folder 16

Killam family — Indian Affairs papers of Indian Agent George R. Smith of Yarmouth County: from May 1887 to August 1896.George R. Smith () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1 volume 532 folder 17

Monk family — George Henry Monk's 'Indian Affairs Letter Book,' 1783-1797. Includes a copy of his commission, notes on the problems encountered and copies of letters sent. () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1

Monk family — George Henry Monk's 'Indian Accounts:' 1784, 1793-1799, 1807-1809. () — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 1

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A1

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A2

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap and decorative markings (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A3

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap with cross-hatching (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A4

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A5

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A6

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap with elaborate design (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A7

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap with elaborate design (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A8

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of four Mi'kmaq peaked caps (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A9

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap and a human figure (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A10

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap and a person, probably a man (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A11

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap and two decorative designs, including a double-curve (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A12

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap decorated with a star (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A13

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap with double-curve motif (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A14

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap with elaborate decoration (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A15

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap with elaborate decoration (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A16

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A17

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap decorated with a curve motif and a tuft [?] on the tip (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A18

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap edged with the double-curve motif (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A19

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of four Mi'kmaq peaked caps, two decorative, curved designs and possible writing or hieroglyphic expression (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A20

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a Mi'kmaq peaked cap and a squared or top hat both decorated with feathers or twigs (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 A21

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a rectangle with triangular markings on one side (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 B1

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of two overlapping rectangles enclosing the Mi'kmaq hieroglyph for Niskam (God) with a cross on top (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 B2

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a square containing elaborate curved and scrolled designs (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 B3

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a square containing line markings and rough designs (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 B4

George Creed — Tracing of a petroglyph of a square containing curved, double-curved and scrolled designs (1888) — Nova Scotia Archives Library MG 15 volume 11 B5

Please note: The Journals of the House of Assembly Mi'kmaq Index is not included in the Guide's Searchable database — view index from Journals of the House of Assembly here

               

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