Muiwlanej kikamaqki "Honouring Our Ancestors": Mi'kmaq Who Left a Mark on the History of the Northeast, 1680 to 1980

by Janet E. Chute (Editor), Donald M. Julien (Foreword by)

Overview

Drawing upon oral and documentary evidence, this volume explores the lives of noteworthy Mi'kmaw individuals whose thoughts, actions, and aspirations impacted the history of the Northeast but whose activities were too often relegated to the shadows of history.

The book highlights Mi'kmaw leaders who played major roles in guiding the history of the region between 1680 and 1980. It sheds light on their community and emigration policies, organizational and negotiating skills, diplomatic endeavours, and stewardship of land and resources. Contributors to the volume range from seasoned scholars with years of research in the field to Mi'kmaw students whose interest in their history will prove inspirational. Offering important new insights, the book re-centres Indigenous nationhood to alter the way we understand the field itself. The book also provides a lengthy index so that information may be retrieved and used in future research.

Muiwlanej kikamaqki – Honouring Our Ancestors will engage the interest of Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike, engender pride in Mi'kmaw leadership legacies, and encourage Mi'kmaw youth and others to probe more deeply into the history of the Northeast.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487546137
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	12/14/2023
Series:	Anglican History
Pages:	1004
Sales rank:	941,897
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Janet E. Chute is the principal investigator in a biographical project which led to the research, writing, and compilation of a series of entries on Mi’kmaw figures of historic note.
Donald M. Julien is the executive director of The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface

Introduction

Part One: Kespukwitk – Southwestern Nova Scotia

1. Charles Alexis and the Bartlett and Charles Families
Janet E. Chute and Travis Pinn

2. Jehan Grand Claude: Patriarch of the Claude/Glode/Gloade Family of Southwestern Nova Scotia
Janet E. Chute and Carrie Gloade

3. Paul Guédry dit Labrador and the Mi'kmaw Labrador Family of Nova Scotia
Janet E. Chute and Doris Labrador

4. Marguerite Guedry
Anne Marie Lane Jonah

5. Pierre Momcharret, Chief of Minas
Janet E. Chute and Doris Labrador

6. François Mius: Forest Aristocrat
Janet E. Chute

7. The Panuke Lake–St. Margaret's Bay Connection: The Thoma/Thomas and Phillips Families of Southwestern Nova Scotia
Nik Phillips and Janet E. Chute, with the assistance of Carrie Gloade

8. Bernard Argomartin and the Pennel Family of Southwestern Nova Scotia
Janet E. Chute and Brittany Pennel

9. Stephen Knockwood Jr. of Kings County, Nova Scotia
Janet E. Chute and Doris Labrador

Part Two: Wagobagitk, Sipekne'katik aqq Eskikewa'kik – Cobequid, the Shubenacadie District, and Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore

10. Paul Peminout and the Peminout Pauls of the Sipekne'katik District
Janet E. Chute, Courtney Brooks-Monteith, Brittany Pennel, and Mary Wells

11. John W. Johnson
Mora Dianne O'Neill

12. The Man at the Centre: Chief Joseph Julien and the "Eastward Tribe," the "Halifax County Band," and the Rise of the Millbrook Community
Janet E. Chute, assisted by Vernon Cope, James Howe Sr., Donald M. Julien, and Heather Sutherland

Part Three: Siknikt, Ulustuk, Piktuk Aqq Epexiwitk – Chignecto District, Northern Maine, the Northumberland Strait Area, and Prince Edward Island

13. The Times, Policies, and Legacy of Joseph Argimault (1707–c.1763), Chief of Siknikt (Chignecto)
Janet Chute, assisted by Greg Solomon and Sherise Williams

14. Jean-Battist Bouta: Founder of the Paq'tnket Community of Antigonish County
Janet Chute, assisted by Natalie McConnell

15. Donald Sanipass
Bunny McBride, with photographic portrait by Harald Prins

Part Four: Kespek (Gespe'g) – Northeastern New Brunswick and Southern Quebec

16. Nicholas Prisk II Ouiouche: Community Rebuilder
Janet E. Chute and Carrie Gloade, assisted by Joseph-Nicholas Prisk

Part Five: Unama'ki aqq K'Taqmkuk – Cape Breton and Newfoundland

17. Capisto
Berton A. Balcom

18. Isidore
Berton A. Balcom

19. Francois N'8gin'tok
Berton A. Balcom

20. Jacques Padanuques
Berton A. Balcom

21. Jean Michau
Berton A. Balcom

22. Michel Michau
Berton A. Balcom

23. Denis Michau
Berton A. Balcom

24. Marie Joseph Borgne de Belisle
Anne Marie Lane Jonah

25. Marguerite, servant at Louisbourg
Anne Marie Lane Jonah

26. The Diplomatic, Trade, and Emigration Policies of Unama'ki District Chief, Jeannot Pequidalouet
Janet E. Chute, Richard Denny, Vernon Cope, Marjorie Gould, Natalie McConnell, and Mary Wells, with professional assistance from Berton A. Balcom and Charles A. Martijn

27. Thoma Denny
Janet E. Chute

28. Michel Thoma Denny Sr.
Janet E. Chute

29. Michel Thoma Denny Jr.
Janet E. Chute

30. Francis Thoma Denny
Janet E. Chute, assisted by Alison Lloy and Lillian Marshall

31. John Denny Sr.
Janet E. Chute

32. John Denny Jr.
Janet E. Chute, assisted by Richard Denny, Marjorie Gould, Alison Lloy, and Natalie McConnell

33. Beloni Thoma
Janet E. Chute

34. Peter Googoo, Chief of Whycocomaugh
Janet E. Chute

35. Andrew Alex, Record Keeper
Janet E. Chute, assisted by Victor Alex and Marjorie Gould

36. Gabriel Sylliboy
Janet E. Chute, assisted by Mary-Ellen Googoo and AlisonLloy

Part Six

37. Mi'kmaw Worldview
Diane Chisholm

Afterword
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Authors

What People are Saying About This

Natasha Simon

"This book is an invaluable and original offering. Muiwlanej kikamaqki — Honouring Our Ancestors　makes a significant contribution to Mi'kmaq history by successfully bringing little-known individuals into the light and by placing them in a historical context that is uniquely informed by both written and oral narratives. For Mi'kmaq wanting to know more about their history, this book will be a wonderful source."　

John Reid

"This book is deeply researched, both in written sources and in integrating the invaluable evidence of Indigenous knowledge. The detailed individual and family histories are uniquely effective in bringing out both changes and continuities in Mi'kmaw history and in the texture of Mi'kmaw interactions with non-Indigenous sojourners and settlers. With a remarkable and outstanding depth of scholarship, the book meticulously pursues biography as an approach that can be extended to people whose lives have too often been deemed to be insufficiently documented for conventional purposes, in order to take our historical understanding in innovative and productive directions."

Editorial Reviews

"This book is an invaluable and original offering. Muiwlanej kikamaqki – Honouring Our Ancestorsmakes a significant contribution to Mi'kmaq history by successfully bringing little-known individuals into the light and by placing them in a historical context that is uniquely informed by both written and oral narratives. For Mi'kmaq wanting to know more about their history, this book will be a wonderful source."—Natasha Simon, Nihkanatpat (Director) of the Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre, University of New Brunswick
"This book is deeply researched, both in written sources and in integrating the invaluable evidence of Indigenous knowledge. The detailed individual and family histories are uniquely effective in bringing out both changes and continuities in Mi'kmaw history and in the texture of Mi'kmaw interactions with non-Indigenous sojourners and settlers. With a remarkable and outstanding depth of scholarship, the book meticulously pursues biography as an approach that can be extended to people whose lives have too often been deemed to be insufficiently documented for conventional purposes, in order to take our historical understanding in innovative and productive directions."—John Reid, Professor of History, Saint Mary’s University

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