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Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources

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.

Date: 1923

Retrieval no.: Clara Dennis Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 2867 number 1

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