Micmacs Essays

  • Essay On L Identité Autochtone

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    Définir le concept d’identité autochtone Selon le gouvernement l’identité autochtone désigne les personnes qui ont déclaré être des Autochtones (Première Nations) qu’ils soient Métis, Inuits ou Amérindiens. En plus des personnes qui ont déclaré être Indiens inscrit out des traités aux termes de la Loi sur les Indiens du Canada et les personnes qui font partie d’une Première Nation ou d’une bande indienne. Par contre pour les Première Nations l’identité autochtone est plus que cela. C’est leur culture

  • The Micmac V.s. The Iroquois

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    The Micmac V.S. The Iroquois Although the Micmac and the Iroquois Confederacy are both Aboriginal groups, they have many differences as well as similarities. One area of such, is their traditional justice systems. Their governments and laws are in some ways similar, but in many ways different. The Micmac reside in what is now Nova Scotia, eastern New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and southern Gaspe. The territory was subdivided in to seven districts. Each of these districts contained family

  • Critical Review of The Old Man Told Us (Excerpts from Micmac History 1500 – 1950)

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    At its time of first print in 1991, The Old Man Told Us: Excerpts from Micmac History 1500 - 1950, was just one of the few texts written specifically on the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada, which incorporated both the colonial and Mi’kmaq “voice” side by side. The author, Ruth Holmes Whitehead is an ethnologist, historian, and research associate at the Nova Scotia Museum and has written many books on the Mi’kmaq. This text however, takes on a very different form than her other published works. Instead

  • Essay On The Beothuk Tribe

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    group of aboriginals known as the Beothuk, who resided in Newfoundland. The relationship with this tribe and the European settlers was like no other. The conflict between these two groups was quite evident and caused trouble between the Beothuk and Micmac as well. The Beothuk tribe no longer exist. There are various reasons why researchers and historians believe this tribe has disappeared,one of which would be their way of life. The disappearance of this tribe has provoked a great The Beothuk tribe

  • What Is The Summary Of Pet Sematary

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    there is a dead cat at the edge of his lawn. Church was hit by a truck at some point in the middle of the night and froze. Louis sacks up the cat and goes to put it in the garage when Jud suggest something else, which they travel to the mysterious Micmac Indian burial grounds. The grounds hold a supernatural power to resurrect anything that is buried there. The only way to get to the burial grounds is through the fallen brush at the edge of the Pet Sematary, which Pascow forbade Louis to cross. Nonetheless

  • The Mi’kmaq Way of Life

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    the birch bark would be removed and taken with them(Nova Scotia 1). Hunting ... ... middle of paper ... ...a combined have about 25,000 Mi’kmaqs with only one recognized group in the United States. This group is called the Aroostook Band of MicMac and is located in Northern Maine, it has 500 members to date. The ABM was recognized by the state government in 1973 and by the Federal government in 1991. There are more than 2,000 Mi’kmaq living in the Boston, Massachusetts area and several hundred

  • Pet Cemetery

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    message warning him about the Pet cemetary and the grounds beyond. During Thanksgiving vacation, while Louis's family is away, the cat Church is killed by a truck. Jud offers to help Louis, and brings him to the Pet cemetary. They arrive at the Micmac Indian burial grounds. Jud has Louis bury Church and build a stone cairn over the grave. Slowly Louis realizes the cairns are arranged in a spiral, like the markers at the Pet Sematary. Later, when Louis is home alone, Church returns. The burial

  • The Aboriginal People of Newfoundland

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    The Aboriginal People of Newfoundland The Beothuk people of Newfoundland were not the very first inhabitants of the island. Thousands of years before their arrival there existed an ancient race, named the Maritime Archaic Indians who lived on the shores of Newfoundland. (Red Ochre Indians, Marshall, 4.) Burial plots and polished stone tools are occasionally discovered near Beothuk remains. Some people speculate that, because of the proximity of the artifacts to the former lands of the Beothuk

  • History Of Hockey

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    United States in the 1700’s witnessed these matches. (Hubbard & Fischler, page17) According to the dictionary of language of Micmacs Indians, published in 1888, the Micmacs of eastern Canada played an ice game called "oochamkunutk," which was played with a bat or stick. Another ice game played by the Micmacs was "alchamadijik," which was referred to in legends of the Micmacs, issued in 1894. (Hubbard & Fischler, page18-19) Early hockey-like games that came from across the Atlantic include the Field

  • Common Misconceptions Of The Algonquin People In Canada

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    Algonquin, pronounced as Algonkin, refers to predominately a large collective group of Native American tribes situated currently across Quebec and Ontario. Denoting themselves as the Anishnabeg, the Algonquin people are known as well for their expansive language “Algonquian” giving their culture much linguistic division. While the Algonquin peoples are the most populous and widespread of the North American Native groups, , it is unfathomable as to why very few Canadians – if any , have any basic

  • Contradictions and Oversight: The Marshall Stabbing Case

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    OKKAnother friend of Donald Marshall Denied being at the park during the stabbing then later gave a statement saying he was there, later when Pratico was re-interviewed he gave a statement saying he saw the stabbing. Both Chant and Pratico’s statements were contradictory but apparently there was no other evidence to base a charge on. The royal commission received evidence that ten days after Marshalls conviction, Jimmy MacNeil came forward to tell police that he saw Ebsary stab Seale but the officer

  • George Bowering: The Ecological Concerns Of Canada

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    The ecological concerns of Canada have been more or less the same as those of the rest of the world. Canada also has faced severe ecological crisis since the migration of the whites to the land. An ecocritical reading of George Bowering’s poems would bring out the anti-ecological attitudes of the settlers, as his poetry becomes a critique of the colonial centrality, which distorted the ecological concord of Canada preserved by the natives. The colonial formula of exploitation has been strongly resisted

  • Jesuits: Saviors or Heroes?

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    The Jesuits: Saviors or Killers? The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, created as a military organization dedicated to missionary work across countries, the members of the association are identified as the Jesuits, they soon became known as being able to interweave the beliefs of Christianity with the customs of the local inhabitants (Bumsted, 2011). Between the years of 1632 to 1670 roughly a hundred Jesuit missionaries were sent to New France in an attempt to learn the Native

  • Health Care Disparities: Nurses Need to Care

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    Health Care Disparities: Nurses Need to Care The United States government spent 2.3 billion dollars in 2010 on federally funded healthcare initiatives and programs according to a report from the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (2008). Despite this astronomical amount of money, health care disparities continue to plague disadvantaged populations in the United States. A health care disparity is defined as differences in incidence, mortality, prevalence, disease burden, and adverse health

  • Life in Maine

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    Its earliest habitants were Ice Age hunters. Little is known about then except that they are known as the “Red Paint” people. They got the name because they used red clay to line the grave of their dead. Maine’s two earliest Indian Nations were the Micmac if the eastern Maine, New Brunswick and the Abaci’s a.k.a (wabanakis). There have been dozens of tribes to inhabit Maine’s land. Only two of which remain. The Passamaquoddies. They have a population of about 1,500 and they live on two reservations

  • Native American Hardships

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    Since Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean in 1492, Native Americans have suffered at the hands of foreign invaders. Sometimes it was overt oppression (Spain would force Natives to “submit to spanish authority”) while other times, it was more subtle, such as when their children went to boarding schools for “better education” (Hurtado et. al. 63, ). Whatever the method, Native Peoples would continue to experience hardship even into the present day. 1492-1500s Native Americans were often

  • Highway Of Tears Summary

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    The case of highway of tears, which has been ongoing for as long as 40 years, in which a total of 18 to 40 indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered along this highway. Despite these high numbers, authorities have been showing a lack of attention towards the concerns and protests of indigenous communities. A similar case that gained Nationwide attention happened in 2002 when a non-indigenous girl went missing along the tragic highway. This case points out the key problems of systemic issues

  • Nova Scotia

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    occupies a small region fronting on Northumberland Strait. The plain is characterized by a low, undulating landscape and substantial areas of fertile soil. History The area now known as Nova Scotia was originally inhabited by tribes of Abenaki and Micmac peoples. The Venetian explorer John Cabot, sailing under the English flag, may have reached Cape Breton Island in 1497. Colonial Period The first settlers of the area were the French, who called it Acadia and founded Port Royal in 1605. Acadia included

  • Tolkien's Lord of the Rings as a Catholic Epic

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    Tolkien's Lord of the Rings as a Catholic Epic It will be the contention of this paper that much of Tolkien's unique vision was directly shaped by recurring images in the Catholic culture which shaped JRRT, and which are not shared by non-Catholics generally. The expression of these images in Lord of the Rings will then concern us. To begin with, it must be remembered that Catholic culture and Catholic faith, while mutually supportive and symbiotic, are not the same thing. Mr. Walker Percy

  • Lakota Woman

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    Lakota Woman Mary was born with the name Mary Brave Bird. She was a Sioux from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. She belonged to the "Burned Thigh," the Brule Tribe, the Sicangu. The Brules are part of the Seven Sacred Campfires, the seven tribes of the Western Sioux known collectively as the Lakota. The Brule rode horses and were great warriors. Between 1870 and 1880 all Sioux were driven into reservations, fenced in and forced to give up everything. Her family settled in on the reservation