Legends of the Micmacs

Legends of the Micmacs
Author: Silas Tertius Rand
Publisher: New York ; London : Longmans, Green
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1894
Genre: Folklore
ISBN:

The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928

The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928
Author: William C. Wicken
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442611553

In 1927, Gabriel Sylliboy, the Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaw of Atlantic Canada, was charged with trapping muskrats out of season. At appeal in July 1928, Sylliboy and five other men recalled conversations with parents, grandparents, and community members to explain how they understood a treaty their people had signed with the British in 1752. Using this testimony as a starting point, William Wicken traces Mi'kmaw memories of the treaty, arguing that as colonization altered Mi'kmaw society, community interpretations of the treaty changed as well. The Sylliboy case was part of a broader debate within Canada about Aboriginal peoples' legal status within Confederation. In using the 1752 treaty to try and establish a legal identity separate from that of other Nova Scotians, Mi'kmaw leaders contested federal and provincial attempts to force their assimilation into Anglo-Canadian society. Integrating matters of governance and legality with an exploration of historical memory, The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History offers a nuanced understanding of how and why individuals and communities recall the past.

Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial

Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial
Author: William Wicken
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802076656

Intersperses close analysis of the 1726 treaty with discussions of the Marshall case, and shows how the inter-cultural relationships and power dynamics of the past, have shaped both the law and the social climate of the present.

Creolization and Transatlantic Blackness

Creolization and Transatlantic Blackness
Author: Charmaine A. Nelson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2024-11-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040164846

Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of ‘Creolization’ in terms of duration, temporality, population, and importantly, in regional scope, which also impact climate and the practices of slavery that are typically included and excluded from consideration. Eschewing the normative focus on language and music, the authors instead center art and visual, and material cultures, as both outcomes and practices, in their explorations to consider the ways that cultural production in the period of slavery and its aftermath was irrevocably impacted by the collision of races and cultures in the Americas. The chapters probe how creolization unfolded for differently constituted individuals and populations, as well as how it came to be articulated both in the historical moments of its enactment and its retroactive cultural representations and production. In so doing, they seek to both expand the terrain (literally and figuratively) of the definition of creolization and to turn towards an examination of its relevance for art and visual, and material cultures of the Transatlantic world. The chapters in this book were originally published in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.